Title: Getting by With a Little Help from My Friends...and Family: Immigrants and Carpooling
Author(s): Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart
Published: 2010 by Transportation, 37(3): 429-446
Online Access: http://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/transp/v37y2010i3p429-446.html
Abstract: While much of the scholarly literature on immigrants travel focuses on transit use, the newest arrivals to the United States make over twelve times as many trips by carpool as by transit. Using the 2001 National Household Travel Survey and multinomial logit mode choice models, we examine the determinants of carpooling. In particular, we focus on the likelihood of carpooling among immigrantscarpooling both within and across households. After controlling for relevant determinants of carpooling, we find that immigrants are far more likely to form household carpools than native-born adults and also are more likely than the native-born to form external carpools (outside the household). Moreover, when faced with the options of carpooling and public transit, immigrantseven recent arrivalsappear to prefer carpools over transit more strongly than the native born.
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Author(s): Blumenberg, Evelyn and Michael Smart
Published: 2010 by Transportation, 37(3): 429-446
Online Access: http://ideas.repec.org/a/kap/transp/v37y2010i3p429-446.html
Abstract: While much of the scholarly literature on immigrants travel focuses on transit use, the newest arrivals to the United States make over twelve times as many trips by carpool as by transit. Using the 2001 National Household Travel Survey and multinomial logit mode choice models, we examine the determinants of carpooling. In particular, we focus on the likelihood of carpooling among immigrantscarpooling both within and across households. After controlling for relevant determinants of carpooling, we find that immigrants are far more likely to form household carpools than native-born adults and also are more likely than the native-born to form external carpools (outside the household). Moreover, when faced with the options of carpooling and public transit, immigrantseven recent arrivalsappear to prefer carpools over transit more strongly than the native born.
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