Data · dataset · 2007
National Household Travel Survey
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The agency served as co-sponsor of this survey with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
Description
The sponsors used these files to examine drivers and their travel, vehicle trips and travel, person trips and travel, and workers and their travel. The sponsors also used the data to evaluate trends over time in local and long distance travel.
The sponsors produced reports and public use data files from the survey results. Policy makers, state departments of transportation, metropolitan pl anning organizations, industry professionals, and academic researchers used the data to gauge the extent and patterns of travel, to plan new investments, and to better understand the implications for the nation's transportation infrastructure. BTS legislation specifically targeted data on the volumes and patterns of passenger transportation.
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This series consists of five data files that include the characteristics of households, people, and vehicles and detailed information on daily and long-distance travel. The Household Data File contains one record for each household participating in the survey. Information in this file includes the household size; household composition; age, sex, worker status, driver status, and relationship to the household respondent of each household member; number of vehicles; the type and location of the home; and household income.
The Person Data File contains one record for each household member participating in the survey. This file includes education level, worker status, occupation and employer information, driver status, annual miles driven, country of birth, income, and other characteristics of the person. The Vehicle Data File contains one record for each vehicle owned, leased, or available for regular use by people living in the household.
Data in this file describe the attributes and usage of individual household vehicles. Variables in the Vehicle Data File include vehicle make, model, year, months owned, annual miles driven, primary driver, and odometer readings. The Daily Travel Data File contains one record for each reported trip taken by an interviewed person on the assigned travel day.
Household and person characteristics are inclu ded with day trip characteristics. Some day trip characteristics include means of transportation, travel time, travel party size, and purpose of trip. The Long-Distance Travel Data File contains one record for each reported trip 50 miles or more from home to the furthest destination made during the travel period.
Household and person characteristics are included with long-distance trip characteristics. Information in this file includes trip purpose, trip distance, and mode of transportation used to and from destination. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC).
See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.
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Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions
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