who had to make more trips. Curiously, a lot of single parents are retired. The data shows them to indeed be of retirement age -- probably with adult children caring for them. They are probably not what you generally think of as single parent households, but technically that's how they get classified. So what are the strongest determinates of public transport use? In my first post on this topic, the likely determinants of public transport use were: Much higher for people travelling to/from the City of Melbourne (possibly increasing with home distance from the central Melbourne) Decreases with distance from central Melbourne (probably a proxy for PT supply) Higher for people with no or limited household motor vehicle ownership. Higher for people without a probationary/full driver's licence. From this post we can probably add: Very low usage by young children (primary school and below); Very low for those for keeping house or working part time (often mums); Lower for parents (in family households with non-adult children); Lower for people on higher incomes (all other things being equal, which they usually are not!); and, Lower for people making more trips per day. Ideally I should run a logistic regression model to the data to analyse the drivers more systematically. I might see if I can do that in a part three. Post navigation 3 Responses to What sorts of people use public transport? (part two) Very interesting post and I impressed with the time and effort you've put in to it.