COMPARISON OF VEHICLE USE DATA BASES: ANALYSIS MEMORANDUM

The US Department of Energy currently is developing two new data bases to provide information on motor vehicle fuel use and travel in support of its transportation policy analysis. These data bases consist of fuel purchase records maintained by representative samples of US households and permit, for the firts time, the study of trends in consumer behavior at a very disaggregate level. This memorandum reviews the vehicle use and fuel economy information in the data bases and discusses the differences in sample composition and fleetwide estimates of monthly VMT and fuel economy.

• Corporate Authors:

  Energy and Environmental Analysis, Incorporated

  1111 North 19th Street
  Arlington, VA  United States  22209
• Publication Date: 1981-4-13

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Energy consumption; Highways; Socioeconomic factors; Transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Energy data related to transportation; Social-economic studies
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00321487
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Statistical Reference File, TSC
• Files: TSR
• Created Date: Feb 28 1985 12:00AM