There’s a mountain of evidence from many western countries showing passenger travel by car is approaching, or at, saturation. In some countries it has stopped growing and in others is declining. As the exhibit shows, per capita travel aggregated across Australia’s eight capital cities shows a slowing in the rate of growth from around 1990 [...]
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Why are we driving less?
I’ve mentioned before how travellers in developed countries like the United States, Britain and Australia are driving less. The accompanying chart, from a new paper, Are we reaching peak travel? By Adam Millard-Ball and Lee Schipper of Stanford University, shows the change in per capita distance driven over the period from 1970 to 2007/08 (before [...]
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