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TABLE 31b Person-Trips by Mode by Households: 2001

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Mode Households without vehicles Households with one or more vehicles
Person-Trips (millions) Person-Trips (percent) Person-trips (millions) Person-trips (percent)
Personal vehicle 5,008 35.6 349,672 88.2
Motorcycle 0 0.0 579 0.1
Air 21 0.1 384 0.1
Transit 2,859 20.3 3,597 0.9
Bus 2,033 14.5 2,262 0.6
Subway/elevated rail 754 5.4 890 0.2
Street car/trolley 34 0.2 67 0.0
Commuter train 38 0.3 333 0.1
Passenger line/ferry 0 0.0 45 0.0
Charter/tour/intercity bus 109 0.8 349 0.1
School bus 298 2.1 6,689 1.7
Taxi, limo, shuttle bus 148 1.1 573 0.1
Intercity train 6 0.0 107 0.0
Bicycle 307 2.2 3,214 0.8
Walk 5,155 36.7 30,170 7.6
Other 150 1.1 1,306 0.3
Total reported 14,061 100.0 396,640 100.0

NOTE: Data are from the daily travel segment of the 2001 National Household Travel Survey. Long-distance travel data (i.e., trips of 50 miles or more collected during a 4-week travel period) are not included here.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration, National Household Travel Survey, Preliminary Data Release Version 1, available at http://nhts.ornl.gov/, as of January 2003.