00091880

Monograph

Data are presented on interviews with public officials and four surveys: (a) a general survey of 195 representative citizens; (b) police; (c) current hitchhikers; and (d) participants in the Fort Collins Community Car Pool (a prototype hitchhiking system). Data were obtained on the percentage of current hitchhikers (19%), drivers who pick up hitchhikers (31%), percent who ever hitchhiked or picked up hitchhikers (43%) (52%), social characteristics, crime statistics, ways of hitchhiking, opinions on the legal status of hitchhiking, and possible increased participation if certain reforms were made. Recommendations were (a) legalization of hitchhiking; (b) establishment of a voluntary system for registering hitchhikers; and (c) designation of hitchhiking areas along streets and highways where cars safely can pull over and stop.

Final Rpt.

NSF-GY-11486

166 p.

1975-3

7406-7409

Attitudes; Carpools; Crimes; Culture (Social sciences); Data collection; Interviewing; Legal factors; Legislation; Methodology; Multimodal transportation; Passenger transportation; Police; Regulations; Social factors; Social values; Statistical analysis; Surveys; Traffic safety; Transportation; Transportation operations; Transportation planning

Expert opinion; Hitchhiking; Transportation management

Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Law; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Society; Transportation (General)

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TRIS

Feb 4 1976 12:00AM