The first academic output of the LDS project is now available online. It is a conference paper that was presented at the 51st Universities Transport Study Group Annual Conference in Leeds (UK). It explores the relationship between migration background, geographical dispersion of social networks and air travel and related emissions.

We found that a first generation migration background (being born abroad) tend to fly more frequently than the rest of the population, mostly because they have friends and family abroad. This means that migrants have higher levels of emissions from air travel, although this is compensated by lower emissions from car use.

Read the full paper here.