METRANS Research Project 07-17

015750092013This report is a delayed submission of work completed in 2007 and was submitted June 2013.PDFTech ReportMETRANS Research Project 07-17MigrationCommutingTravel behaviorImmigrantsIncomeMode choicePublic transitRidershipSingle occupant vehiclesSocioeconomic factorsWork tripsResearch HubPublic TransportationSafety and Human FactorsSocietyTraffic and Transport PlanningUnited StatesCaliforniaLos Angeles Metropolitan AreaNew York Metropolitan AreaNew YorkUnited States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and TechnologyPark, JulieRyu, Sung HoMyers, DowellUniversity of Southern California. School of Policy, Planning, and Development. Population Dynamics Research GroupMETRANS Transportation Center (Calif.)California. Dept. of Transportation. Division of Research, Innovation, and System InformationUniversity Transportation Centers Program (U.S.)US Transportation CollectionImmigration has been a major factor in U.S. population growth, particularly in high immigrant-receiving states such as California, New York, Texas, Florida, and Illinois. This population growth has many urban policy and planning impacts with transportation topping the list. The first section of the report contains compositional profiles of the total population and of full-time workers who are immigrants, evaluating how these numbers have changed from 1990 to 2000. It also identifies the share of public transit commuters and the share of single-occupancy commuters that are comprised of immigrants, analyzing how these shares may have increased from 1990 to 2000. In the second section, multinomial logistic regression models are estimated that evaluate immigration effects net of income effects. Models are estimated separately for Los Angeles and New York, locales that also present very different native-born norms of commuting. The most recently arrived immigrants are those most likely to use public transit to commute to work