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The Omnibus Surveys are a convenient way to get very quick input on transportation issues; to see who uses what, how they use it, and how users view it, and what they think about it; and to gauge public satisfaction with the transportation system and government programs. The series of surveys...
The 2002 National Survey of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Attitudes and Behaviors was jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and administered by The Gallup Organization.
...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...
Note: no surveys fielded on September 2001 and April through June 2001.
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...Long Distance Trips are more than 50 miles from home to the furthest destination.
HOW WE TRAVELNine out of 10 long-distance trips are by personal vehicle7 percent of long distance trips are by air2 percent of long distance trips are by bus1 percent of long distance trips are by trainPersonal...