Racial Segregation in Everyday Mobility Patterns: Disentangling the Effect of Travel Time

Nascent research documents that U.S. racial segregation is not merely a residential phenomenon but present in everyday mobility patterns. Better understanding the causes of mobility-based requires disentangling spatial macrosegregation, which constitutes an obvious confounding factor. In this work, author analyzes big data on visits between 270 million neighborhood dyads to estimate effect composition patterns, net driving, walking, and public transportation travel time. Matching these times, finds residents Black Hispanic neighborhoods visit White only slightly less than they other neighborhoods. Distinctly, are far likely non-White neighborhoods, even The time–adjusted homophily among greater commuting zones where situated closer