Getting by with a little help from my friends…and family: immigrants and carpooling

By Evelyn Blumenberg, Michael J. Smart. 2010

138 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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 immigrants—carpooling 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, immigrants—even recent arrivals—appear to prefer carpools over transit more strongly than the native born.

Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/2cd9343ea5ff442679f5a8afedebb25efaa05949

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Chipulu
2. A. Marshall
3. Jun Guan Neoh

In Transportation

1. M. Chipulu
2. A. Marshall
3. Jun Guan Neoh

Citations in the corpus

• What encourages people to carpool? An evaluation of factors with meta-analysis (2017, background): “(2009) and Blumenberg and Smart (2010) found that immigrants in the US are particularly likely to participate, even after accounting for socio-economic factors.”