A new paper has just been published in Travel Behaviour & Society on trends in air travel inequality. It is a collaboration between our research project and Milena Büchs, Associate Professor at the Sustainability Research Institute at the University of Leeds, who is working for the Transport theme of the UK Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions.

The paper combines household expenditure and national travel survey data to investigate whether and to what extent patterns of participation in air travel have changed in the UK over the last 20 years. We find that air travel remains very unequally distributed, even in a country like the UK, although it’s become slightly less so over the last 20 years. The findings have implications for the distributional impact of travel demand management measures such as aviation taxes and the ‘frequent flyer levy’.

To access the paper click on the image below (or email the authors).