1969 NATIONWIDE PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION SURVEY

The Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey was designed to obtain up-to-date information on national patterns of travel. Earlier surveys, limited primarily to automobile and truck travel, were conducted in a number of States between 1930 and 1940 and more recently between 1951 and 1959. In April 1961, a survey was conducted to determine on a national basis characteristics of travel and ownership and use of automobiels. Data for the nationwide personal transportation survey were collected in 1969-1970 by the Bureau of the Census of the Department of Commerce for the Federal Highway Administration of the Department of Transportation. There are 11 reports: (1) Automobile Occupancy; (2) Annual Miles of Automobile Travel; (3) Seasonal Variations of Automobile Trips and Travel; (4) Transportation Characteristics of School Children; (5) Availability of Public Transportation and Shopping Characteristics of SMSA Households; (6) Characteristics of Licensed Drivers; (7) Household Travel in the United States; (8) Home-to-work Trips and Travel; (9) Mode of Transportation and Personal Characteristics of Tripmakers; (10) Purpose of Automobile Trips and Travel; and (11) Automobile Ownership.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • The survey was based on multi-stage probability sample of housing units located in 235 sample areas, comprising 485 counties and independent cities, representing every State and the District of Columbia.
• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Highway Statistics Division, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Intermodal transportation; Passenger transportation
• Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00321438
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Statistical Reference File, TSC
• Report/Paper Numbers: Periodic
• Files: TSR, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 30 1983 12:00AM