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NEWS RELEASE: NEW REPORT SHOWS MOUNTING EVIDENCE OF
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MILLENNIALS' SHIFT AWAY FROM DRIVING
Congestion forecasts and government still ignore lasting change in Maryland and
nationwide
For Immediate Release IJC f /a <? 2.014 Contact Emily Scarr
Tuesday, October 14, 2014 (410) 467 -9389
A new report from the Maryland Public Interest Research Group (Maryland PIRG) and Frontier
Group shows mounting evidence that the Millennial generation's dramatic shift away from
driving is more than temporary. While the 2000s saw a marked decrease in the average number
of miles traveled by young Americans, the study explains that those trends appear likely to
continue even as the economy improves – in light of the consistency of Millennials' surveyed
preferences, a continued reduction of Millennials driving to work, and the continued decreases
in per - capita driving among all Americans.
"Millennials are different from their parents, and those differences aren't going away," said
Maryland PIRG Director Emily Scarr. "After five years of economic growth with stagnant driving,
it's time for federal and Maryland government to wake up to growing evidence that Millennials
don't want to drive as much as their parents did. This change has big implications and policy
makers shouldn't be asleep at the wheel."
"Millennials are trying to send a message to policy- makers: We want convenient, walkable
neighborhoods with many options for how to get around," said Tony Dutzik, Senior Analyst at
Frontier Group and co- author of the report. "Unfortunately, many of our nation's transportation
policies work to ensure just the opposite result."
The report includes many findings that suggest that Millennials' shift away from driving last
decade is continuing:
Census data shows that the share of 16 to 24 year -olds traveling to work by car declined by 1.5
percentage points between 2006 and 2013, while the share of young people getting to work by
public transportation, on foot or by bicycle, or else working from home, had increased.
• Young people aged 20 to 30 are less likely to move from central cities to suburbs than at any
time since at least the late 1990s.
• Millennials consistently report greater attraction to less driving- intensive lifestyles — urban
living, residence in "walkable" communities, and openness to the use of non - driving modes of
transport — than older generations.
• Fewer young people are getting their driver's licenses than even a few years ago. The
percentage of high school seniors with driver's licenses declined from 85 percent to 73 percent
between 1996 and 2010, according to the AAA Foundation for Highway Safety, with federal data
suggesting that the decline has continued since then.
Millennials are the largest generation in number and they will be the chief users of the
transportation investments that get made over the coming decade. Millennials are expected to
drive more as they reach the peak- driving years of middle age, but if they drive less (or even no
more) than their parents did in middle age, it will be a monumental shift in travel trends since the
1950s and the assumptions underpinning current transportation policy.
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