Transportation

Data in the 2022 National Household Travel Survey (NTHS) provides insight into the daily frequency of daily commuting by the mode characterized as “usual” in survey (See: Summary of Travel Trends: 2022 National Household Travel Survey, Table 7-3, reproduced below as Figure 1). The annual American Community Survey (ACS), administered by the Census Bureau, asks respondents for their “usual” mode of travel over the past week.  read more »

The nation’s public transit systems carried 77.3 percent as many riders in October 2024 as in the same month of 2019  read more »

Like many transit agencies, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni) is facing a big budget deficit  read more »

On September 20^th Sound Transit published the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the proposed light rail extension to West Seattle.  read more »

Last week, I took my 2012 Acura to my longtime auto repair shop, Rising Sun Automotive, for an oil change.  read more »

What a difference the remote work revolution has made. The University of Minnesota Accessibility Observation auto and transit access data for 2021  read more »

Transit ridership dropped sharply with the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020. The slow rebound in the years that followed has prompted discussion, sometimes in hushed tones, as to whether transit had entered a “death spiral.” That ominous description refers to a situation where a decrease in ridership leads to lower farebox revenue, which in turn leads to service cuts, which further reduces ridership, and so on in a vicious downward cycle.  read more »

This article describes work access in the Los Angeles combined statistical area (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties) from 1980 to 2022, using US Census Bureau data.  read more »

One of my many beefs with government planning advocates is that they tend to judge success by measuring inputs rather than outputs.  read more »

Morning and afternoon rush-hour traffic has returned to pre-pandemic levels in many U.S. urban areas, according to INRIX’s 2023 Global Traffic Scorecard.<--break--> However, what INRIX finds most “astonishing” is that mid-day traffic has grown by an average of 23 percent and is now much greater than during the morning rush hour, and almost as great at around noon as the afternoon rush hour.  read more »