In the NHTS Summary of Travel Trends, page 13, the average person trip length for “to/from work” is 11.8 miles   (that would be ONE way, not round trip).

There is some difficulty in analysis because of trip chaining, so when someone goes from work-to-shop-to-home, this would not be measured in miles as a work to home trip.

http://nhts.ornl.gov/index.shtml   This page has a link to the pdf of Summary of Travel Trends.

By the way, what Liang Long was referring to was the NHTS on-line table generator. It is also accessible from the NHTS main webpage.  After you register, you can easily tabulate (1-way, 2-way, 3-way cross tabs, with subsetting)  many variables without having to do any programming.  Then, you can output as a spreadsheet or html.

Elaine Murakami

FHWA Office of Planning

206-220-4460 (in Seattle)

From: ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of McClelland, Kaine
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 1:42 PM
To: ctpp-news@chrispy.net
Subject: [CTPP] information on average commuter travel time in the U.S.

Everyone-

I am interested to find out if anyone has any valid information in regards to the average amount of miles traveled one way by commuters in the U.S. ? I remember reading somewhere the average American drives something like 26 minutes(or thereabouts) one way to work each day but in this case I am specifically looking for a number of miles traveled one way.

Any help with this question would be appreciated.

Thanks

Kaine McClelland

Nebraska Dept. of Roads

Transportation Planner

1400 Highway 2

Lincoln, NE 68509

phone: 402-479-3937