Interesting point but I don't think that is the case here. The vast majority of undergraduate students living here attend Harvard and MIT, both of whom make it very difficult for students to garage cars in Cambridge. There are also many graduate students living here, about 7,000 of whom live in housing units rather than dorms. However, school policies make commuting by car difficult if not close to impossible. Also, given the compact size of the city, the availability of public transit, and the remote location of what little student parking there is, commuting by car is not a reasonable option for virtually all resident students. Cliff Cook -----Original Message----- From: ctpp-news-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:ctpp-news-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Robert Campbell Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:41 AM To: ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net Subject: Re: [CTPP] No Car but Drive Alone to Work I was wondering whether Cambridge, MA, might be something of an outlier for stats, because of its large student population. Perhaps the students are using "family" cars for their journey to work. It would be interesting to see if other communities, which have much smaller resident student populations, experience the same % of drivers in zero-car households. Robert L. Campbell, Senior Manager/Scheduling MTA Long Island Bus Phone 516-296-4709 FAX 516-794-8670 Based on the 2009 NHTS, the ACS result seems reasonable. In the 2009 NHTS (weighted results), 12% of persons in zero-vehicle households who travelled to work "last week", did so in a vehicle with one person in it (500k people out of 4,260k). Rob Case I'm hoping someone can help me address this question from a colleague. He put together a table from the 2006-2008 ACS showing mode of journey to work by vehicles owned and came up with surprisingly large numbers who do not won a car yet drive alone to work. No doubt, there are a few people who fit this category but my guess is that this largely is the result of either people misunderstanding the question or some sort of coding problem. Here is an excerpt from his email ( the Cambridge here is Cambridge, Massachusetts): I'm looking at ACS data and specifically at cities and percent workers have no car available. From that I'm then looking to see how those workers get to work. The attached worksheet shows my work. What is strange is that it shows for Cambridge that 6.6% of people without a car available drove alone to work. The percent is similar to Boston. And NYC has 3.4% of workers with No vehicles available driving alone to work. So, the question is, how can someone without a vehicle drive to work alone? Do you have any ideas on this? It could be someone doesn't own a vehicle, but drives a friend's car to work. Or has no car of their own, but uses a company car to get to work. But seems like a high number for this. Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks Cliff Cook ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clifford Cook Planning Information Manager Cambridge Community Development Dept. 344 Broadway Cambridge, MA. 02139 617/349-4656 FAX 617/349-4669 TTY 617/349-4621 email => ccook(a)cambridgema.gov web site => <http://www.cambridgema.gov/~CDD/> _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news _______________________________________________ ctpp-news mailing list ctpp-news(a)chrispy.net http://www.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/ctpp-news