{"id":1131,"date":"2011-12-20T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2011-12-20T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T18:28:39","slug":"millennials-prefer-car-%e2%80%9caccess-over-ownership%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/millennials-prefer-car-%e2%80%9caccess-over-ownership%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennials Prefer Car \u201cAccess Over Ownership\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/thecityfix.com\/blog\/new-study-millennials-prefer-car-access-over-ownership\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thecityfix%2Fposts+%28TheCityFix%29\" target=\"_blank\">The City Fix<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Zipcar_Inc\/millennial-slide-share-final\" target=\"_blank\">Zipcar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zipcar, Inc., the world\u2019s leading car-sharing network, released its second annual independent study of Millennials (18-34-year olds), which examines this generation\u2019s attitudes toward personal transportation and car ownership.\u00a0 Millennials are an important segment for Zipcar, comprising more than half of all members. Millennials account for about 23 percent of the general population, according to the 2010 US Census.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>55 percent have actively made an effort to drive less, compared to 45 percent in the same 2010 study<\/li>\n<li>78 percent say owning a car is difficult due to high costs of gas and maintenance<\/li>\n<li>53 percent  would participate in a car-sharing service, like Zipcar \u2013 mobility and convenience is still important<\/li>\n<li>Millennials are the most likely age group to participate in the \u201csharing economy\u201d (67 percent would participate in media sharing and 49 percent in home\/vacation sharing)<\/li>\n<li>40 percent  say they would participate to save more money for retirement or buying a home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Zipcar_Inc\/millennial-slide-share-final\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1134\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/files\/2011\/12\/Zip-survey-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 425px\"><strong><a title=\"Millennials &amp; Driving: A Survey Commissioned by Zipcar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/Zipcar_Inc\/millennial-slide-share-final\" target=\"_blank\">Millennials &amp; Driving: A Survey Commissioned by Zipcar<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The City Fix and Zipcar Zipcar, Inc., the world\u2019s leading car-sharing network, released its second annual independent study of Millennials (18-34-year olds), which examines this generation\u2019s attitudes toward personal transportation and car ownership.\u00a0 Millennials are an important segment for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/millennials-prefer-car-%e2%80%9caccess-over-ownership%e2%80%9d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6838,6846,111,6845],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-active-transport","category-car-ownership","category-news","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/amc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}