women of the same age. I'll come to possible reasons for this soon. As you might expect there were very similar patterns in driver's licence ownership (see part one ) and public transport use by age; although public transport use continued to be relatively high into the 30-34 age bracket and driver's licence ownership is over 80% by age 30. So why are there these discrepancies for people in their 30s and 40s? I'll get to that soon. But first, is public transport use related to the amount of travel people make? People aged 40-44 were the busiest travellers with 3.7 trips per day on average, which then fell with age. Between the ages of 20 and 44 people made many more trips, but became less likely to use public transport with age. Young children do travel a fair bit, but rarely on public transport. The average number of public transport trips per day peaked for teenagers, who also had the lowest overall trip making average. The average number of active transport trips (walking and/or cycling only) did not seem to vary considerably by age. Main activity The VISTA survey classifies people by their main activity in life (you might think of this as occupation). Here's a look at average public transport use on school weekdays. As we saw with age, public transport use peaked for secondary school children, with full time tertiary students not far behind. Children not yet at school were the least likely to use public transport,