An introduction to the special issue of young people's life choices and travel behavior.

This virtual special issue (VSI) focuses on the importance of researching young people's life choices and travel behaviors based on the life-oriented approach. Young people's behaviors may be uniquely different from other age groups. A better understanding of such behaviors is essential for making transport policy decisions from long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-sectional perspectives. This VSI presents ten papers, covering topics such as possession of a driver's license, car ownership and usage, travel patterns, household expenditure, residential behavior, shared mobility, and self-driving public buses. The features and major findings of each paper are summarized and then important research issues are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]