This week two empirical studies from our research project were published in the journals Travel Behaviour & Society and Journal of Transport Geography.

The first study looked at the impact of migration background, ethnicity, and social network dispersion on air and car travel. It finds that (first-generation) migrants tend to fly more (mostly because of dispersed social networks) but to drive cars less. The paper is part of a virtual special issue on long-distance travel that we are guest-editing as part of the project.

The second article used unique data from Dortmund to show how patterns of socialisation to holiday travel behaviour have changed across generations since the early 20th century, and what the impacts of early socialisation to foreign travel are. We find that younger people today are more likely to have had earlier and more extensive experience of holidays abroad, and that that might lead them to make more foreign trips as adults.

A full list of project-related publications is available here.

The journal Travel Behaviour & Society has set up a webpage for the Virtual Special Issue “Long-distance travel: between social inequality and environmental constraints”.

The Special Issue was guest edited by LDS project members Giulio Mattioli and Joachim Scheiner, along with Frédéric Dobruszkes and Zia Wadud.

8 papers are included so far, while more are still in the review phase. Find the complete list here.