# Mobility Patterns of Students: Evidence from Tricity Area, Poland
## 6 Conclusions  
The Y Generation is perceived as more environment-friendly than previous cohorts, willing to use active travel modes and use many travel modes (are multimodal) and sharing economy or on-demand solutions by using mobile applications. On the other hand, they are less willing to get driving licenses or own a car. However, they still prefer a car as a transport means. Women are more willing to travel, but their mobility level decreases when being in a relationship and having children, which is an element of the stage of their life course. This paper is one of a cycle of papers about mobility patterns in Poland. In the previous papers, authors focused on showing the environmental awareness and attitudes of Generation Y in the area of travel choices [107]. The authors made several works about similar topics to present, e.g., (but not limited to) car-related mobility patterns of this generation [108] or transport behavior in the Tricity area [106]. Those previous studies, together with the current one, are aimed at starting the scientific discussion on the topic of changing mobility patterns to implement sustainable urban mobility. The results of the survey data analysis allowed for the detailed description of the complex research problem, which definitely is the character of mobility patterns of young Poles, students living in Tricity, being a part of the broadly described Y Generation. Despite many literature items addressing this issue, there was no comprehensive study about one or more societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Compilation of the research about cohort-specific mobility patterns is completely justified because the life stages of young people have constantly been changing. Consequently, this paper is one of the first about the mobility patterns of Polish young adults, more specifically, students from the Tricity area, using the above-mentioned research approach and scope of the research problem. It fills the existing literature gap and allows for the comparisons between mobility choices of people of the same age, living in similar cultural circles, but different countries and cities. The paper mentions similarities and differences between representatives of Tricity's Y Gen and those living in other countries and leads to the conclusion that some basic elements of Y Generation characteristics are the same for different nations, especially environmental consciousness. The results described in the paper can serve a wide range of different urban logistics stakeholders to adjust their activities to the demand characteristics presented by Y Generation mobility in the Tricity area, but probably for the other Polish urban areas as well. The wider audience can use the paper to design their research and discuss the results. Among the stakeholders, the most important would be a local authority (or authorities) responsible for local transport policy, implementing sustainable urban mobility plans, monitoring the service providers on local mobility market, designing the environmental policy in the city, etc. [58] Moreover, public and private transport companies can verify their offer according to the needs of young adults. Of course, the presented results do not fully cover the topic of mobility patterns but provide essential data on demand as well as on the reasons for choosing a mode of transport or a particular service. A broader group of stakeholders who can benefit from this research also includes the broadly understood scientific and research community, residents and other city users [110]. This is important, especially because of very limited studies about this topic for Poland. Despite the value of the results, this study has a few limitations. First, using non-random sampling in the survey makes the research results impossible to be presentedas valid for the whole population of young adults in the Tricity area and Y Generation in Poland as a whole. What is more, the paper presents the data only for a part of the Y Generation, namely only the students.