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The National Transportation Availability and Use Survey was born out of the President's New Freedom Initiative objective to "expand transportation options for persons with disabilities1." According to a 1997 U.S. Bureau of the Census report2, and substantiated by Census 2000, about one in five...
The National Transportation Libary (NTL) was established to provide national and international access to transportation information, coordinate information creation and dissemination, and provide reference services for DOT employees...
FAA-sponsored safety seminars are used to provide safety training to pilots. The effectiveness of the program has been debated, as voluntary attendance is often low (estimated at 40% in 2002 compared to 45% during 1998, the last time attendance was surveyed). Previous evaluations of the pilot...
Note: no surveys fielded on September 2001 and April through June 2001.
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The purpose of the project was to develop estimates of average weekday household person trips, vehicle trips, person miles traveled, and vehicle miles traveled, for all census tracts in the United States. The estimates were made using national travel data collected in the 2009 National...
"Stretch Commute" trips are at least 50 miles one way.
Commuting in America
In a year, 3.3 million Americans "stretch-commute"More than one out of 10 (13 percent) long-distance trips are for commutingJust over one out of five (22 percent) long distance trips between 50 and 99 miles are...