Immobility in Rio de Janeiro, beyond poverty

► We examine immobility in Rio de Janeiro using the 2002/2003 Household Travel Survey. ► Almost half of inhabitants made no trips at all during the day. ► Income has only a slight effect on the probability of being immobile. ► Unemployed workers and homemakers have the greatest number of immobile. ► Strong geographic dimension of immobility is due to demographic structure effects.