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Table 5-1
Population and Passenger Travel in the United States:
1977 and 1995
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| Resident population (thousands) |
219,760 |
262,761 |
20 |
| Annual local person trips (travel day) (millions) 1 |
211,778 |
378,930 |
79 |
| Annual long-distance person trips (millions) |
521 |
1,001 |
92 |
| Local person trips per capita, one way (per day) 1 |
2.4 |
4.3 |
47 |
| Long-distance trips per capita, roundtrip
(per year) |
2.5 |
3.9 |
56 |
| Local person-miles (millions) 1 |
1,879,215 |
3,411,122 |
82 |
| Long-distance person-miles (millions) |
382,466 |
826,804 |
116 |
| Local person-miles per capita 1
(annually) |
9,470 |
14,115 |
49 |
| Long-distance person-miles per capita (annually) |
1,796 |
3,129 |
74 |
| Local mean trip length (miles) |
8.9 |
9.0 |
1 |
| Long-distance mean trip length (miles) |
733 |
826 |
13 |
1 Persons over 5 years of age.
Notes: Data used for local travel are from the travel-day file
and include trips of all lengths made by respondents on a single
day. About 95 percent of these trips were 30 miles or less.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, 1995 American Travel Survey, data; U.S. Department
of Commerce, Census Bureau, National Travel Survey, Travel During
1977 (Washington, DC: 1979); U.S. Department of Commerce, Census
Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States 1998 (Washington,
DC: 1998); U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway
Administration, Summary of Travel Trends: 1995 Nationwide Personal
Transportation Survey (Washington, DC: 1999).
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