Understanding the travel needs, behaviour and aspirations of people in later life
Table of contents
- Publication details
- Acknowledgements
- Executive summary
- Introduction (Chapter 1)
- Journeys made in later life (Chapter 2)
- Experiences of different modes of transport (Chapter 3)
- The cost of transport (Chapter 4)
- Concessionary travel for older people (Chapter 5)
- The impact of life events on transport use (Chapter 6)
- Driving cessation (Chapter 7)
- The importance of transport in later life (Chapter 8)
- Policy implications (Chapter 9)
- Introduction
- Background to the research
- Objectives
- Methodology
- Report outline
- Journeys made in later life
- Journey purposes
- Journey destinations
- Trip-chaining
- Time of travel
- Experiences of different modes of transport
- Cars
- Buses
- Walking
- Lifts
- Taxis
- Community transport and other similar specialist transport
- Mobility scooters
- Bicycles
- Coaches
- Rail travel (tube, tram and train)
- Single and multiple mode travel
- The cost of transport
- Expenditure on transport in a typical week
- The cost of transport in the context of household expenditure
- The role of cost in decisions about transport and travel
- Concessionary travel for older people
- Awareness of concessionary travel on buses
- Awareness of other forms of concessionary travel
- Attitudes to accessing concessionary bus travel
- Attitudes to accessing other concessionary travel
- The impacts of concessionary travel
- Views about the conditions of concessionary travel
- The introduction of free off-peak bus travel
- The impact of life events in older age
- Retirement and semi-retirement
- Poor and declining health
- Caring responsibilities, poor health amongst family and friends and bereavement
- Children and grandchildren
- Age-related changes in attitude and outlook
- Compounded effects of life events and changes
- Looking ahead to future changes
- Driving cessation
- Reasons for driving cessation
- Making the decision to stop driving
- The impacts of driving cessation
- Driving licence renewal
- The importance of transport in later life
- Needs that transport enabled older people to meet
- Older people’s travel aspirations
- Policy implications
- Recognising the importance of factors other than age in shaping transport use in later life
- Acknowledging the full range of transport needs in later life
- Minimising the impacts of declining health on use of public transport
- Addressing fear of crime on public transport
- Maximising the value of concessionary travel for older people
- Reducing the cost of driving for older drivers
- Addressing the impact of declining health, and ageing generally, on older drivers
- Preparing older drivers for the impacts of driving cessation
- Overcoming barriers to accessing community or other similar specialist transport
- Improving access to transport for older people in rural areas
- References
- Appendices
- Appendix A Letter sent to potential respondents
- Appendix B Leaflet sent to potential respondents
- Appendix C Topic guide used in interviews
