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Long Distance Trips are more than 50 miles from home to the furthest destination.
HOW WE TRAVEL FOR BUSINESSThe personal vehicle is the dominant mode for business travelEight out of 10 long-distance business trips are by personal vehicle16 percent of long distance business trips are by air3...Daily Travel is a trip from one point to another on a single day.
HOW WE TRAVEL87 percent of daily trips take place in personal vehicles91 percent of people commuting to work use personal vehiclesHOW MANY TRIPS WE TAKE EVERY DAYAmericans take 1.1 billion trips a day — four for every person in...Long Distance Trips are more than 50 miles from home to the furthest destination. Summer trips are not for business or commuting to and from work and begin the Thursday before Memorial Day and end the Wednesday after Labor Day.
HOW MUCH SUMMER TRAVEL657 million long distance summer trips were...(Long Distance Trips are more than 50 miles from home to the furthest destination. Winter trips are for the period from the Monday after New Years Day to the final day of March, and do not include trips for commuting to and from work.)
NOTE: The January-March 2002 winter travel season...
The 1995 American Travel Survey (ATS) was conducted by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to obtain information about the long-distance travel of persons living in the United States. The survey collected detailed information from persons about all trips taken of 100 miles or more, as...
Section 7308(c) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (Pub. L. 114-94; the “FAST Act”) requires the Department of Transportation (DOT) to conduct a survey of tank car facilities to obtain an estimate of tank cars projected to be modified or built to the new safer DOT Specification...
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StateMean Census Tract estimate by urban groupPerson miles traveledPerson tripsUrbanSuburbanRuralUrbanSuburbanRuralAlabama45.4559.4482.387.908.588.52Alaska57.6061.6862.549.239.669.00Arizona53.9766.4472.208.718.929.22Arkansas47.6658.6181.328.228.598.48California60.0965.6467.319.959.949....