BTS | Table 1-38: Principal Means of Transportation to Work

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Table 1-38: Principal Means of Transportation to Work

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	1989		1993		1997		1999		2001		2003		2005
	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
All workers	106,630	100.0	103,741	100.0	116,469	100.0	118,041	100.0	120,191	100.0	115,342	100.0	123,250	100.0
Automobile, total	93,943	88.1	91,301	88.0	101,908	87.5	103,467	87.7	105,586	87.8	101,664	88.1	109,005	88.4
Drives self	81,322	76.3	79,449	76.6	90,207	77.5	92,363	78.2	93,942	78.2	91,607	79.4	97,781	79.3
Carpool, total	12,621	11.8	11,852	11.4	11,701	10.0	11,104	9.4	11,644	9.7	10,057	8.7	11,224	9.1
2-person	9,708	9.1	9,105	8.8	9,294	8.0	8,705	7.4	9,036	7.5	7,866	6.8	8,669	7.0
3-person	1,748	1.6	1,684	1.6	1,526	1.3	1,454	1.2	1,635	1.4	1,351	1.2	1,501	1.2
4+ person	1,165	1.1	1,063	1.0	881	0.8	945	0.8	973	0.8	840	0.7	1,054	0.9
Public transportation^a	4,880	4.6	4,740	4.6	5,337	4.6	5,779	4.9	5,627	4.7	5,081	4.4	5,424	4.4
Taxicab	152	0.1	117	0.1	139	0.1	144	0.1	133	0.1	128	0.1	131	0.1
Bicycle or motorcycle	795	0.7	744	0.7	738	0.6	749	0.6	847	0.7	691	0.6	705	0.6
Walks only	3,634	3.4	3,227	3.1	3,869	3.3	3,627	3.1	3,408	2.8	3,171	2.7	2,875	2.3
Other means^b	491	0.5	474	0.5	867	0.7	987	0.8	1,049	0.9	1,072	0.9	962	0.8
Works at home	2,736	2.6	3,137	3.0	3,611	3.1	3,288	2.8	3,401	2.8	3,536	3.1	4,148	3.4

^a Public transportation refers to bus, streetcar, subway, or elevated trains.

^b Other means include ferryboats, surface trains, and van service.

NOTES

Principal means of transportation refers to the mode used most often, when different means of transportation were used on different days of the week, or the mode used for the longest distance during the trip to work, when more than one mode is used to get to work each day.

Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, American Housing Survey for the United States: 2005 (Washington, DC: 2006), table 2-24 and similar tables in earlier editions, Internet site http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ahs.html as of Oct. 12, 2006.