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      <title>User's Guide for the Public Use Tapes 1983-1984 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study: Part 1</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is part of a series that presents findings from the 1983-1984 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS). This report explains the 1983 NPTS data collection, coding, and tabulation procedures. It includes a section that compares the 1983 Study with the 1969 and 1977 studies and procedures for achieving comparability among the three studies. This part of the report, Part 1, contains the body of the report and Appendix A: Sample Tables.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is part of a series that presents findings from the 1983-1984 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS). This report explains the 1983 NPTS data collection, coding, and tabulation procedures. It includes a section that compares the 1983 Study with the 1969 and 1977 studies and procedures for achieving comparability among the three studies. This part of the report, Part 2, contains Appendix B: 1983 NPTS Record Layout and Documentation.]]></description>
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      <title>User's Guide for the Public Use Tapes 1983-1984 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study: Part 3</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is part of a series that presents findings from the 1983-1984 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS). This report explains the 1983 NPTS data collection, coding, and tabulation procedures. It includes a section that compares the 1983 Study with the 1969 and 1977 studies and procedures for achieving comparability among the three studies. This part of the report, Part 3, contains the following appendices: Appendix C: Glossary of Terms; Appendix D: 1983 NPTS Study Questionnaire; Appendix E: Occupation Classification System Codes; Appendix F: Industrial Classification System Industry Codes; Appendix G: NPTS Public Use Information; and Appendix H: Urban Areas With and Without Rail.]]></description>
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      <title>Estimates of Variances: Report 10, 1977 NPTS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is part of a series that presents data relating to the 1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS). This report presents in tabular form estimates of variability referred to as standard errors based on information obtained from a probability sample of households interviewed for the NPTS. The tables contain standard errors for estimates of vehicle trips, person trips, and person miles, and household demographic characteristics. Estimates of standard errors of percentages have been prepared for vehicle trips, vehicle miles, person trips, and person miles for different trip purposes. In addition, standard errors of means are presented for average annual vehicle trips, vehicle miles, person trips, trip duration and trip distance.]]></description>
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      <title>The Effects of Survey Methodology Changes in the NPTS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three topics are addressed in this paper: an update on the 1995 NPTS (Nationwide Personal Travel Survey); the changes in survey methodology between 1990 and 1995, which serve as the framework for the discussion of the conflict between improving the travel survey and comparing the data over time; and what has been learned from the NPTS experience and advice to others.]]></description>
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      <title>1995 NPTS Databook</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The primary purpose of this Databook is to serve as a statistical compendium of the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS). Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the NPTS Databook. In Chapter 2, estimates of annual travel data from the 1995 NPTS are reported. Estimates reported include total person miles of travel (PMT) and total vehicle miles of travel (VMT). These estimates are broken down by the different data sources, such as the travel day or travel period, within the 1995 NPTS. Chapter 3 contains demographic characteristics and household vehicle ownership patterns that shape travel activities at the individual and the household level. The remainder of the Databook consists of the following: Chapter 4 discusses data on person trips and travel; Chapter 5 includes analysis of vehicle travel, in terms of the number of vehicle trips and VMT; Chapter 6 presents data on journey-to-work and work-related trips; Chapter 7 reports on ride-sharing and vehicle occupancy distributions; and Chapter 8 presents data on the travel behavior of special population subgroups – the elderly, women, low-income individuals, pedestrians, and transit riders. The appendices contain material needed by the NPTS data users.]]></description>
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      <title>1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study: User's Guide for the Public Use Tapes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This guide presents information on the 1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS). The 1977 NPTS was designed to update the earlier study done in 1969 to provide comprehensive data on travel and transportation patterns in the United States. This guide describes the background, scope and purpose of the study; provides information on the sampling methods, and collection and processing procedures; describes the NPTS estimating procedures used to create weighted data and includes documentation of each of the eight tape files made available on the public use tape. In addition, recoding and trip linking procedures for use in recoding of the 1977 NPTS trip purposes for comparability with the 1969 trip purposes and for preparing data summaries for the two periods are also included. A Glossary of Technical Terms (Appendix A) defines concepts and/or terms used in the documentation. Copies of the questionnaire and an order form with description and price of the public use tapes are also found in the Appendix. Standard errors of estimates and measures of sampling variability calculated from data collected for this Study will be available in early Summer 1980.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:50:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trends in Personal Motor Vehicle Ownership and Use: Evidence from the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The size, composition, and use of the U.S. motor vehicle fleet are subjects of major interest to analysts and policy-makers concerned with the environmental impacts of passenger transportation. The release of the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) provides an opportunity to examine recent trends in motor vehicle ownership and usage. This latest NPTS, which follows similar studies conducted in 1969, 1977, 1983, and 1990, also incorporates several refinements that may make it a more useful data source for understanding the causes and implications of these trends. This paper addresses three related subject areas. The first is the total volume of personal motor vehicle travel, its recent growth, and the sources of its growth. The second subject concerns vehicle ownership, specifically, the number, types, and age distribution of motor vehicles available to households. The third subject is household vehicle utilization patterns; this section also includes a model of the determinants of household demand for private motor vehicle travel. The paper also explores the implications of changes in vehicle ownership and use for air pollutant emissions and energy consumption. Like its predecessors, the 1995 NPTS permits a variety of useful analyses that together reveal important insights into the patterns of household motor vehicle ownership and use, as well as into the underlying behavior that produces them. The results presented here should be useful to transportation professionals seeking to understand the patterns and determinants of motor vehicle travel, as well as to planners and policy-makers in their efforts to design and implement strategies that reduce the environmental consequences of growing motor vehicle usage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2018 16:13:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey: Implications of Emerging Travel Trends, Conference Proceedings</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored a conference April 20-21, 1994 in Crystal City, Virginia to bring together participants to share their experiences and interpretations relative to the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey.  The conference was called "Implications of Emerging Travel Trends - What does NPTS Tell Us?"  Some issues covered, identified in previous commissioned papers, were: declines in carpooling; potential saturation of travel by male population; trip linking behavior; travel by women; travel by the elderly; and travel by households without vehicles.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:38:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Propensity to Telecommute: Exploring the National Household Travel Survey</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Telecommuting is the substitution for work at the workplace with work at home or other locations close to home. The interest in telecommuting stems from its potential benefits in trip reduction, congestion mitigation, cost saving for office spaces, increased productivity, and better home–work balance. The factors that influence people’s telecommuting behavior were explored by using data from the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey and 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Survey. A comprehensive analysis was undertaken, and the trends over several years were examined. The analysis advances the understanding of the characteristics of workers who telecommute according to detailed categories of telecommuting frequency. The findings are essential as a first step toward estimating and incorporating telecommuting in the travel demand forecasting process.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 11:21:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>1977 National Personal Transportation Study: Urban/Rural Split of Travel</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is part of a series that provides findings from the 1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS) • Data related to the urban/rural split of travel are analyzed for all trips and vehicle miles of travel made in a private motor vehicle on a designated travel day by place of residence of traveler J 'location of travel, and trip purpose. The tables show the proportion of vehicle miles of travel generated by urban residents which remained within the boundaries of their urban area identified as the home urban area. In addition. the tables show the percent of travel generated in the home urban area by urban residents outside the area and rural residents. Variables relating distribution of trips and vehicle miles of travel to average trip length, mode of transportation and trip type are also shown.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:42:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study: Vehicle Occupancy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is part of a series that presents findings from the 1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS). This report contains average vehicle occupancy rates by trip characteristics (trip purpose, trip length, time of day and day of the week) and characteristics of households (income, number of persons, number of drivers and vehicle ownership). Comparisons are made with data from the 1969 NPTS to evaluate trends in occupancy rates over time.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:42:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study: Household Travel</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is one of a series prepared from the findings of the 1977 Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS). The report examines the relationship between household travel patterns and characteristics of the household. Vehicle trips and vehicle miles per household are presented relative to income, number of vehicles owned, household location and composition of the household (e.g., number of persons, workers, drivers). In some tables, rates are shown in terms of two household characteristics, such as income and number of vehicles owned. Findings from the 1977 NPTS are compared to those from the 1969 NPTS to trace changes over time in vehicle trips and travel per household.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:42:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Highway Statistics 2006</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This publication is the 62nd of an annual series. It presents the 2006 analyzed statistics of general interest on motor fuel, motor vehicles, driver licensing, highway-user taxation, State highway finance, highway mileage, and Federal aid for highways; and 2005 highway finance data for municipalities, counties, townships, and other units of local government. Also included is information on the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. This report has been published each year since 1945.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:57:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Applications of TRIMM for Small and Medium Communities</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper presents the development and working mechanisms of a custom database application called ‘Travel Related Inputs Model for MOBILE6.x,’ or TRIMM. Under the auspices of the Federal Highway Administration, TRIMM is developed for deriving vehicle activity parameters that are specific to various geographic regions across United States. The 2000 Nationwide Household Travel Survey (NHTS), and the 1990 and 1995 Nationwide Personal Travel Survey (NPTS) data form the basis for deriving inputs to the MOBILE model. The NPTS/NHTS data were reduced for reconstructing the vehicle trip chains. The reduced survey data are imbedded into TRIMM as data tables. The simplified architecture of TRIMM is based on a relational database model which performs several predefined queries on the vehicle-trip chain data tables. Application of TRIMM for air quality modeling needs of the small and medium sized communities across the United States is discussed in detail. The model feature that facilitates the users to perform data export and custom comparisons of derived vehicle activity inputs to the defaults imbedded in MOBILE 6.2 is also highlighted.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:38:53 GMT</pubDate>
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