Household Travel Surveys on the WWW

The purpose of this page is to provide links to State Department of Transportation and Metropolitan Planning Organization web sites related to household travel surveys. The intent is to provide easy access to travel survey reports and data. This page is a project of the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Committee on Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems (ABJ30). This web page is a "work in progress" so please help the committee by providing updated and new links!


Metropolitan and State Travel Surveys on the WWW, 1994-2003

Region or State
Survey Vintage

Description and Link
Atlanta
2001/02
Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), with Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) and Georgia DOT (GDOT). [8,000 households]
http://www.atlantaregional.com/mobilityair/modeling/householdtravel.html
Toronto
2001
Transportation Tomorrow Survey 2001 (TTS 2001). [30,000 households in greater Toronto region.]
http://www.jpint.utoronto.ca/tts01/tts01.html

Los Angeles
2001
Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). 2001 Travel and Congestion Survey. [26,800 households in six-county Los Angeles region.]
http://www.scag.ca.gov/travelsurvey/
Main Survey final report: http://www.scag.ca.gov/travelsurvey/pdf/MainSurveyResults.pdf
Knoxville, TN
2000/01
Knoxville-Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission (KnoxMPC).
[1,704 households in two-county region.]
http://www.knoxmpc.org/locldata/onthego/onthego.htm
California State
2000/01
California DOT. California Statewide Household Travel Survey [17,040 households in 58 California counties.]
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/docs.htm
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/tsip/TSIPPDF/2000_Household_Survey.pdf
Ohio State
2000
Ohio DOT.
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/urban/files.htm   find file: data_col.zip
Oregon State 2000

Oregon DOT. Oregon Travel Behavior Survey [3,200 households in 8 rural Oregon counties; two-day household activity surveys.] http://egov.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP/TMR.shtml#96_OR_Travel_Behavior_Surveys
http://egov.oregon.gov/ODOT/TD/TP/docs/TMR/96TBS/Final8Counties.pdf

Sacramento
2000
Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG). [3,941 households in 6 Sacramento region counties.]
"Pre-Census Travel Survey Behavior Report": http://www.sacog.org/publications/travelsurvey.pdf
San Francisco Bay Area 2000
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). Bay Area Travel Survey 2000 (BATS2000). [15,064 households in 9 Bay Area counties; two-day household activity surveys.]
MTC Survey Home Page: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/survey/
Reports & Data: ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/planning/BATS/BATS2000/
Philadelphia, South Jersey
2000
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) and the South Jersey Transportation Planning Organization (SJTPO). [5,677 households in 14-county DVRPC/SJTPO regions.]
http://www.sjtpo.org/htsrpt.pdf
Puget Sound
1999
Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC). [5,949 persons in Puget Sound region.]
http://www.psrc.org/datapubs/data/hhsurv99.htm
Olympia, WA
1998/99
Thurston Regional Planning Council (TRPC).
http://www.trpc.org/programs/transportation/projects/98householdtravelsurvey.htm
New York, North Jersey
1997/98
New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) and North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) [11,000+ households in 28 New York/New Jersey counties.]
NYMTC Survey Home Page: http://www.nymtc.org/ Go to: Surveys
NJTPA Survey Home Page: http://www.njtpa.com/planning/rthis/rthis.html
Executive Summary: http://www.nymtc.org/files/exsum00321.pdf
Full Report: http://www.nymtc.org/files/fr00321.pdf
Weekend/Weekday Travel: http://www.nymtc.org/files/nr000309.pdf
Denver
1997
Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG) [4,196 households in eight county DRCOG region.]
http://www.drcog.org/documents/DRCOG%20TDR%20Report.pdf "Travel in the Denver Region" [Report]
Toronto
1996
Transportation Tomorrow Survey (TTS 1996). [30,000 households in Greater Toronto region.]
http://www.jpint.utoronto.ca/tts96/tts96.html
San Francisco Bay Area
1996
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC). Bay Area Travel Survey 1996 (BATS96). [5,861 households in 9 Bay Area counties; two-day household activity surveys.]
MTC Survey Home Page: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/maps_and_data/datamart/survey/
Reports & Data: ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/planning/BATS/BATS96/
Houston-Galveston
1994/95
Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC).
http://www.h-gac.com/HGAC/Departments/Transportation/Resources/Printed_Publications+.htm report #T23
Washington, D.C.
1994 Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (MWCOG).
1994 COG/TPB Household Travel Survey: Summary of Major Findings, Pub #98601, $15.00, published January 1998.
http://www.mwcog.org/transportation/activities/models/data.asp
Sydney, NSW, Australia
1997/P
New South Wales Department of Transport (Transport NSW). Sydney Continuous Travel Survey (CTS). [3,500 households per year, continuous since 1997/98.]
http://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/tpdc/house-survey.html
London, UK
2001/02
London Area Travel Survey 2001 (LATS 2001). [30,000 households within the M25 Beltway.]
http://www.lats.org.uk/




Travel Survey Data Archives
"Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?"
(Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" 1970)
TRANSTATS Data Library National Transportation Data Archive, provided by the USDOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
Metropolitan Travel Survey Archive Data Archive at the University of Minnesota (http://www.surveyarchive.org/)
Household Travel Surveys on the WWW Page maintained by the TRB Urban Data Committee & Friends
UK Data Archive National Data Archive at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom
Links to North American Data Archives Site maintained by the UK Data Archive
Links to European Data Archives Site maintained by the UK Data Archive
Links to Other Data Archives Site maintained by the UK Data Archive
NESSTAR.com (Networked Social Science Tools and Resources) - web-based survey data dissemination software environment - Produced by the UK Data Archive and the Norwegian Data Archive
Pet Names for a Transportation Data Archive

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