This report provides an insight into the travel diary research carried out in Bristol and Nottingham examining how gender, ethnicity and lifecycle influence travel and participation behaviour. In Bristol, the travel diaries indicated that Asian respondents most frequently made trips as car drivers, followed by white respondents. This suggested that Asian respondents would be more vulnerable to exclusion effects unless more effort was put in to education and marketing campaigns in appropriate languages to make public transport services more accessible to this population. Asian women were more likely to be car passengers than drivers. Elderly people were also highly dependent on car travel. Young people were more likely to walk or travel as a car passenger than use the bus. Men travelled further and made more trips than women. Women were more likely to travel into the city centre and men were more likely to travel out of the city. This indicated that women were more liely to be affected by a cordon congestion charge. Average distance travelled by white participants was twice that travelled by Asian participants. Afro-Caribbean participants travelled least far. All groups were considered likely to benefit from hypothecated road user charge investment and lowering of congestion levels. In Nottingham where a workplace parking levy is proposed, the greatest impact would fall on people aged 26-45. Trips to work by car were made by 61% of men and 31% of women. However bus trips to work would show improved reliability, benefitting 13% of men and 24% of women. Men travelled on average three-fold the distance that women travelled. White respondents reported travelling twice as far as Asians. Since 55% of trips made by Asian respondents and 40% of those made by white respondents were as car drivers, the effect of a levy may be greater on Asian than on white respondents. Only 16% of respondents supported the concept of a workplace parking levy.