🚶‍♀️ 18% of people made zero trips outside their home yesterday. But who are they and why does it matter?

The Mobility Participation Rate tells us more than just how many people travel. It tells us who is being left out of the transport system entirely.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most transport surveys are designed around the “average” traveller. They focus on weekdays, on commuters, on the main trip-maker in a household. That means the care trips, the errand runs and the days when someone simply couldn’t leave often go uncounted.

Immobility is not neutral. And it is not random. It follows the fault lines of gender, age, income, and disability that run through every city.

A participation rate is only useful if you ask: participation for whom? Under what conditions? Measured when and by whom?

That’s the difference between a statistic and a policy tool.