America on the Go... U.S. Holiday Travel

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• Alternative Title:
  America on the Go...Findings from the National Household Travel Travel Survey: U.S. Holiday Travel
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Travel surveys
  • Travel and shipment characteristics
  • Travel patterns
  • Mode choice
  • Statistics
  • Tables (Data)
• Series:
  National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1501402
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Abstract:
  The Thanksgiving and Christmas/New Year's holiday periods are among the busiest long-distance travel periods of the year. During the 6-day Thanksgiving travel period, the number of long-distance trips (to and from a destination 50 miles or more away) increases by 54 percent, and during the Christmas/New Year's Holiday period the number rises by 23 percent, compared to the average number for the remainder of the year. And although heavy media attention focuses on crowded airports and bus and train stations on the Wednesday before and Sunday after Thanksgiving, when personal vehicle trips are added to the mix the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) reveals that Thanksgiving Day is actually a heavier long-distance travel day than Wednesday.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/6311/dot_6311_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 37.76 KB]
• Collection(s):
  BTS Products
• Main Document Checksum:
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