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Abstract:
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The Federal Highway Administration's National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) is an excellent source of travel information for large geographic areas in the United States (US) but not for small areas due to sample size limitations. This study, uses a NHTS break-out into six geographical areas and urban/suburban/rural classifications to estimate average weekday household: person trips; vehicle trips; person miles traveled; and vehicle miles traveled, using household and demographic characteristics. These estimates are then transferred to individual census tracts using the household and demographic data for each census tract. While individual census tract estimates may have limited accuracy, they can be beneficial indicators to local governments, and other interested customers, who may not have the budget and/or time for conducting their own surveys.
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