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Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey & U.S. Census reports

Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey Reports:

For information on the following reports, contact the Office of Highway Information Management, HPM-40, Washington DC 20590; phone: (202) 366-0160 or fax: (202) 366-7742; for copies, contact the FHWA R&D Report Center, HRD-11, Rm. A 200, 6300 Georgetown Pike, McLean VA 22101.


1990 NPTS Demographic Special Reports: includes papers on travel by men, women, and the elderly; other topics: multiworker household travel demand; household structure and travel behavior; publication No. FHWA-PL-95-032.

1990 NPTS Travel Mode Special Reports: includes papers on travel by households without vehicles, recent nationwide declines in carpooling, and non-motorized transportation; publication No. FHWA-PL-94-019.

1990 NPTS Urban Travel Patterns: includes chapters on person and vehicle trip rates, vehicle miles of travel (VMT), trip length in distance and time, mode choice, occupancy of privately opperated vehicles, geographic regions and individual metropolitan areas, and commute trips by time of day; publication No. FHWA-PL-94-018.

1990 NPTS Special Reports on Trip and Vehicle Attributes: includes papers on understanding trip chaining, geographic factors explaining work trip length changes, demography of the US vehicle fleet, and time-of-day characteristics of travel; publication No. FHWA-PL-95-033.

1990 NPTS Databook Vol. 1: includes chapters on estimates of total travel, determinants of travel, and person trips and person miles of travel; publication No. FHWA-PL-94-010A.

1990 NPTS Databook Vol 2: includes chapters on vehicle trips and vehicle miles of travel, journey-to-work and work-related trips, ride sharing and vehicle occupancy, characteristics of longer trips, commercial travel, and highway accidents; publication No. FHWA-PL-94-010B.

1990 NPTS Implications of Emerging Travel Trends: conference proceedings includes papers presented on travel mode, trip and vehicle attributes, and demographics ; publication No. FHWA-PL-94-027.

1990 NPTS Summary of Travel Trends: includes statistics on vehicle availability, household travel, vehicle occupancy, journey-to-work, vehicle utilization, modal split, drivers, person travel, travel by women, and travel by individuals 65 years and older; publication No. FHWA-PL-92-027.

U.S. Census Bureau Reports:

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