California Statewide Household Travel Survey, 2000-2001

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Casas
Keyword(s):  
Travel Survey ◽  
Household Travel Survey ◽  
Household Travel

Does Investing in Rail Transit Benefit the Poor? A Comparative Study of Rail and Bus Travel by Low-Income Households in the California Household Travel Survey

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (6) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Ryland Lu
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Travel Survey ◽  
Household Travel Survey ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Household Travel ◽  
Low Income Households

This paper addresses academic discourse that critiques urban rail transit projects for their regressive impacts on the poor and proposes bus funding as a more equitable investment for urban transit agencies. The author analyzed data from the 2012 California Household Travel Survey on transit trips in Los Angeles County. The author cross-tabulated data on the modal breakdown of transit trips by household income category and on the breakdown of household income associated with trips by bus and rail transit modes. The author also comparatively evaluated the speed of trips (as a ratio of miles per hour) taken by rail and by bus by low-income households in the county. The author found convincing evidence that, on average, trips low-income households made by rail transit covered a greater distance per hour than trips taken by bus transit, but that trips made on the county’s bus rapid transit services with dedicated rights-of-way had a higher mean speed than those taken by rail. Moreover, the mode and income cross-tabulations indicate that rail transit projects only partially serve low-income households’ travel needs. To the extent that equitable transit planning entails minimizing the disparities in access, both rail and bus rapid transit projects can advance social justice if they are targeted at corridors where they can serve travel demand by low-income, transit dependent households.

scholarly journals Trends in Taxi Use and the Advent of Ridehailing, 1995–2017: Evidence from the US National Household Travel Survey

Urban Science ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Conway ◽  
Deborah Salon ◽  
David King
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vehicle Ownership ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Travel Survey ◽  
Household Travel Survey ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Household Travel ◽  
National Household Travel Survey ◽  
Vehicle Market

The advent of ridehailing services such as Uber and Lyft has expanded for-hire vehicle travel. We use data from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) to investigate the extent of this expansion in the United States. We report changes in the for-hire vehicle market since ridehailing services became available and statistically estimate the determinants of ridehailing use. From 2009–2017, the for-hire vehicle market share doubled. While for-hire vehicles still only account for 0.5% of all trips, the percent of all Americans who use ridehailing in any given month is nearly 10%. Within the for-hire vehicle market, this trend of growth has not been uniformly distributed across demographic groups or geographies; it has been greater in mid-sized and large cities, and among younger individuals and wealthier households. This suggests that understanding the equity implications of ridehailing is an important avenue for research. Multivariate analysis provides evidence that both transit and nonmotorized transport use are correlated with ridehailing use, that ridehailing has a negative relationship with vehicle ownership, and that residents of denser areas have higher ridehailing use. Given the rapid growth of ridehailing, it has become important for cities to include for-hire vehicles in their planning going forward. These NHTS data provide a starting point, but more detailed and frequent data collection is needed to fully understand this many-faceted, rapidly-changing market.

scholarly journals Assessing the representativeness of a smartphone-based household travel survey in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Christopher Zegras ◽  
Menghan Li ◽  
Talip Kilic ◽  
Nancy Lozano-Gracia ◽  
Ajinkya Ghorpade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
Travel Survey ◽  
Household Travel Survey ◽  
Household Travel
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