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COMMUTING IN AMERICA II. THE SECOND NATIONAL REPORT ON COMMUTING PATTERNS AND TRENDS

The first "Commuting in America", published in 1987, discussed the need to replace the public's stereotypical image of commuting with one that was more sound--one that was based on the realities of contemporary commuting characteristics and patterns. The new understanding had three parts: a boom in workers, often from two-worker households; a boom in suburb-to-suburb commuting, becoming the dominant flow pattern; and a boom in the use of private vehicles, as America's vehicle fleet exceeded the number of drivers. Commuting's impact on land use patterns, urban form, and society in general has been discussed extensively in the policy literature and the public press. The questions then become: "Are patterns observed in the eighties still effective descriptors of contemporary patterns of commuting?" and "Are new patterns emerging?" This report seeks to answer these important questions. A major part of the report reassesses the strength of these trends as we move into the mid-nineties, to determine whether they are still strong forces in defining the character of commuting patterns and whether new forces of change have come forward, either replacing, or joining, previous trends.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • Prepared under the direction of the Steering Committee for the National Commuting Study.
  • Corporate Authors:

    Eno Transportation Foundation

    44211 Slatestone Court
    Lansdowne, VA  United States  22075
  • Authors:
    • Pisarski, A E
  • Publication Date: 1996

Language

  • English

Media Info

  • Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
  • Pagination: 128 p.

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00727055
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Oct 9 1996 12:00AM