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Figure 2-1: Total Travel by Trip Purpose, 2009

Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Trip Purpose Percent
Social/Recreational 27.5
School/Church 9.6
Family/Personal business 42.5
Work-related 3.1
To/From work 15.6
Other 1.8

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 2009 National Household Travel Survey, available at http://nhts.ornl.gov. As of April 2013