Here are a few more charts from the report into public transport and Generation Y I posted about the other day.
I was surprised to see that in general the numbers of young people getting drivers licences by age group isn’t really changing all that much – with the exception of older people as more people age with licences, and the youngest age bracket due to changes in when you can get a licence.
One of the most interesting is how the distance we travel in vehicles changes with age. You can clearly see those under 35 are travelling less than the same age bracket did in past which helps to highlight the behavioural shift that’s occurring. The same is also being seen for those over 70 which is perhaps partly an impact of initiatives like the Super Gold Card.
I was surprised by just how much the amount of time we spend walking decreases as we get older.
The percentage of cyclists by age group is quite interesting with the results showing a lull in mid to late 20’s before increasing again with a second peak in the 40’s. Particularly noticeable is the strong increase in all of the older age groups over the last few measures.
Lastly young people clearly use PT much more than older age groups. As the report indicates, if we can improve PT so that it becomes more useful then a lot more of the 15-19 year olds will continue using it as they age and that will lead to large increases in PT use.
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Interesting details in there. The older cyclist increase is very interesting; perhaps now we know where some of those representative submissions on cycle path provision made by older white males in recent consultations came from. Good on them. The distance driven chart is also interesting: clearly aligns with the c2004 “peak driving” observation from here and abroad.
I await with interest the studies on the impact of the Gold card for seniors. It is wonderful whipping about with a HOP loaded with the concession and I wish more people would be encouraged to load theirs and stop wasting everyone’s time ticketing.
All those trips to Waiheke and such must surely have a big impact on mental health – but where are the studies?
It’s curious the increase in cycling and not in walking. The studies about exercise and positive ageing seem to be piling up…
So many more older drivers…..
This is unrelated comment to the graphs, mainly for the East-West ideas from Onehunga to Eastern suburbs.
Would it be easy to construct a mixed use bridge between the two bits of green field between Panama Road and Highbrook just underneath Fisher & Paykel?
And then once that bridge is considered, consider using existing roads to make LRT transit corridors from Onehunga to Mt Smart Stadium to Sylvia Park, through Panama Road to Highbrook?
Or an additional clip-on LRT station could be added somewhere along the track of current SE highway that sits in the middle of Sylvia Park so that LRT could travel along Church Street, pickup and drop-off passengers directly into Sylvia Park and move along SE highway in both directions?
Could another bridge with LRT capability be considered a little bit further north in Glen Innes/Glendowie suburbs connecting Taniwha St/West Tamaki Rd/Riddell Road to somwhere along Bucklands Beach Road at the Eastern suburbs peninsula?
This would remove the Bucklands Beach bottleneck as peeps would only need to cross the narrow straight and connect back to Glen Innes train station if needing to get to Britomart?
Surely Fig 3.10 isn’t the number of minutes spent walking *per year*?
Can that walking data really be accurate? We walk less than 2 hours a year on average? I’m personally walking a minimum of an hour a day
The PT data is given in hours, while the walking data is given in minutes – mislablelling of the walking axis?
Kind of disappointing. I had hoped all that stuff about young people not wanting to drive was true so I would be able to drive everywhere with increasing ease.
All your trolling achieves is repeating exactly what walking / cycling / PT advocates have been saying for ages – if more people chose not to drive, those who really need to / want to drive, can do so more freely.
but it is true — kms driven by young people is well down.
If you look at the first four clusters on the Km driven graph you see a fairly straight increase for 15-19 then a sag decrease then increase for 20-24, a hump increase then decrease for 25-29 then a reasonably straight decrease for 30 to 34. All four patterns in one plot!
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Since no one has been pedantic in their comments so far, I thought I’d take up the slack. Quibble: That is way too much data to show on one chart, or on this kind of chart. I haven’t given it a great deal of thought – because studying these charts gives me a headache – but there are probably other chart types that could display this info more clearly. Or maybe – wait for it – numbers.
PT use by 15-19 year olds is highest only because of secondary school commuting… very different dynamics from work force commuting