Parking and Access at General Hospitals

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• Creators:
  Kanaan, George E.
• Corporate Creators:
  Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Control
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Hospital Design Hospitals Hospital Visitors Land Use Planning Parking Parking Design Travel Demand Travel Patterns
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States ; Connecticut
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00262993
• Corporate Publisher:
  Eno Foundation for Highway Traffic Control
• Abstract:
  Hospitals are major activity centers. In the United States they employ 2.9 million workers supported by nearly one million volunteers.' Daily they attract 15 million automobile trips generating about 55 million vehicle miles of travel. Affluence, advances in medicine and surgery, the advent of medical insurance and governmental health programs, and the greater proportion of older people in the population A lead to a phenomenal increase in hospital use. Admissions to U.S. hospitals have grown by 67 percent in two and one-half decades from 91 admissions per 1000 population per year in 1946 to 156 in 1970- In addition, the number of outpatient visits to U.S. hospitals increased from 246 visits per 1000 population in 1962 to 447 in 1970. Figure I shows this annual growth of hospital visitations by inpatients and outpatients. Admissions, in this case, is the total number of patients accepted for inpatient (bed) service during a year (not including newborn.) Outpatients are those who visit the hospital for clinical or emergency treatment but are not admitted as inpatients receiving overnight care.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6e8a789aaf4c06732cfe79fea9e94b4c2585557080d011d7a9dcf85973754f5d
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16281/dot_16281_DS1.pdf
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