I have a new paper published in the Journal of Transport and Land Use, title ‘Mobility, access and choice: a new source of evidence’. The new source is the UK Department for Transport’s accessibility statistics, which relate where people live (census data) to where are located services and facilities such as doctors, hospitals, schools etc. My analysis allows estimates of how much choice people have, dependent on their mode of travel. I find that for those with use of a car or good public transport, levels of choice are quite high, consistent with the proposition that demand for travel has ceased to grow because we have enough choice to meet our needs.
This Journal is unusual in that it is available free of charge online without charging authors for the costs of publication. Commendable.
[…] to be greater for traditional factors and less for newly emerging factors. So for example, my own analysis that suggested a saturation of demand for travel is viewed sceptically on account of as yet limited […]