2017 NHTS now available

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sarah.sun@dot.gov
2017 NHTS now available

The Federal Highway Administration is pleased to announce the release of the 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) data, now available at http://nhts.ornl.gov. The 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) is the eighth and most recent survey in this series and the results will be used to inform transportation policy and planning efforts at the Federal, state, and local levels. Since 1969, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has been collecting travel behavior data to answer evolving questions related to how, why, when, and where people travel through a probability-based random sampling survey approach.

The survey documents the demographic, attitudinal and travel behavior for all members of 129,969 households, as collected from April 2016 to April 2017. Daily travel details provide insights into work and school commutes, non-emergency medical trips, shopping trips, and even how travel differs in the summer and on weekends as compared to the typical weekday when school is in session. When statistically weighted to adjust for survey biases, the data demographically represents all Americans and is appropriate for analysis at the national and census region levels.

If you have any additional questions, please contact Mr. Danny Jenkins, PE, FHWA Travel Behavior Project Manager at daniel.jenkins@dot.gov  or 202-366-1067.