The impact of migration background and ethnicity on car, bus and bicycle use in England

People with a migration background and/or who identify themselves with an ethnic group tend to have different travel behaviour in comparison to the population majority. A better understanding of this nexus is needed, yet there is a lack of quantitative studies on this topic in Europe and in the United Kingdom. ILS researcher Janina Welsch and Giulio Mattioli from TU Dortmund fill this gap by analysing data from the 2018–2019 wave of the UK House-hold Longitudinal Survey. With ordinal regression models, they investigate the impact of migration generation and ethnicity on the frequency of car, bus, and bicycle use. The results show that travel behaviour varies substantially depending on migration background and ethnicity, with the latter playing a larger role. More: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-025-10696-5. Further current selected papers can be found here.