Truck 

Drivers

Air

Travel

Surface 

Category Modes*

--

100%

70%

100%

70%

100%

Intercity Travel

PersonalBusiness

Business 100% -- 100%Personal 50% -- --

Local Travel

Recommended Values of Travel Time Savings

(per person-hour as a % of wage rate)

Table 1 (Revision 1 - unmodified)

* Surface figures apply to all combinations of in-vehicle and other transit time. Walk accewaiting, and transfer time should be valued at 100% of the wage rate when actions affect those elements of transit time.
Truck 

Drivers

Air

Travel

Surface 

Category Modes*

--

100%

60-90%

80-120%

60-90%

80-120%

Intercity Travel

PersonalBusinessBusiness 80-120% -- 100%

Personal 35-60% -- --

Local Travel

Plausible Ranges for Values of Travel Time Savings

(per person-hour as a % of wage rate)

Table 2 (Revision 1 - unmodified)

* Surface figures apply to all combinations of in-vehicle and other transit time. Walk acceswaiting, and transfer time should be valued at 100% of the wage rate when actions affect those elements of transit time.
Truck 

Drivers

Air

Travel*

Surface 

Category Modes

--

$18.10

$33.30$40.10

$21.10$21.20

Intercity Travel

PersonalBusiness

Business $21.20 -- $18.10

Personal $21.10 -- --

Local Travel

Recommended Hourly Earnings Rates

for Determining Values of Travel Time Savings

(2000 U.S. $ per person-hour)

Table 3 (Revision 1)

* Hourly earnings of $45.00 are to be used for general aviation passengers when they areincluded as a separate category.
Table 3 (Revision 1, continued)

Sources:(1) Local and intercity personal travel by surface modes: median income for all U.S. households 

($42,148), divided by 2,000 hours per year. Reported in U.S. Census Bureau, Income 2000

(http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/income00/inctab1.html).

(2) Local and intercity business travel by surface modes: total compensation cost per hour work

($21.16). Reported in Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee CompensaTable 1 (http://stats.bls.gov/ncs/ect/sp/ecechist.pdf).

(3) Intercity personal and business travel by airline: weighted average incomes for domestic “bu

“other” trips, respectively, in 1998, divided by 2,000 hours per year. Reported in Air Transpoof America, Air Travel Survey, 1998, Table D72. Escalated by the increase in median annuU.S. households from 1998 to 2000 (8.4%), from U.S. Census Bureau, Income 2000, Table 

(http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/income00/inctab1.html).

(4) Truck Drivers in local and intercity travel: median weekly earnings of full-time truck drivers f

divided by average weekly hours for full-time operators in transportation and material movin

(45.7 hours per week). Reported in Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings, JTables 39 and 23 (ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aa2000/AAT39.TXT, 

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/lf/aa2000/AAT23.TXT). Plus total benefits ($5.80) from 

Labor Statistics, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, 1986-2001, Table 1 

(http://stats.bls.gov/ncs/ect/sp/ecechist.pdf).

(5) General aviation travelers: median annual income from 2000 survey of members by the Airc

Pilots Association ($90,000), divided by 2,000.
Truck 

Drivers

Air

Travel**

Surface 

Category Modes*

--

$18.10

--

$23.30$40.10$28.60

$14.80$21.20$15.60

Intercity Travel

PersonalBusinessAll Purposes ***

$18.10

--

----

$21.20$11.20

BusinessAll Purposes ***

Personal $10.60 -- --

Local Travel

Recommended Hourly Values of Travel Time Savings

(2000 U.S. $ per person-hour)

Table 4 (Revision 1)

* Surface figures apply to all combinations of in-vehicle and other transit time. Walk accesswaiting, and transfer time should be valued at $21.10 per hour for personal and $21.20 per for business travel when actions affect only those elements of transit time.** When a weighted average value for air travel must be constructed, the value of $31.50 sbe used for general aviation passengers on personal travel and that of $45.00 for general 

aviation passengers on business travel.
Table 4 (Revision 1, continued)

*** Weighted averages, using distributions of travel by trip purpose on various modes. Distribution 

by surface modes: 94.4% personal, 5.6% business. Distribution for intercity travel by surface modepersonal, 13.1% business. Distribution for intercity travel by air: 68.7% personal, 31.7% business. derived from on-line analysis of PMT data from the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survat http://www-cta.ornl.gov/npts/1995/Doc/index.shtml
Table 5 (Revision 1)

$30.00$48.10$35.60

----

High

$19.00$25.40$19.80$25.40$13.40$12.70

High

Tru

Driv

Air

Travel**

Surface 

Category Modes*

--

$18

--

$20.00$32.10$23.80

$12.70$17.00$13.20

Intercity Travel

PersonalBusinessAll Purposes ***

$18

--

$17.00 --

$7.90

BusinessAll Purposes ***Personal $7.40 -- --

Low Low

Local Travel

Plausible Ranges for Hourly Values of Travel Time Savings

(2000 U.S. $ per person-hour)

* Surface figures apply to all combinations of in-vehicle and other transit time. Walk acceswaiting, and transfer time should be valued at $21.10 per hour for personal and $21.20 pe

for business travel when actions affect only those elements of transit time.

** When a weighted average value for air travel must be constructed, the value of $31.50 sbe used for general aviation passengers on personal travel and that of $45.00 for general 

aviation passengers on business travel.
Table 5 (Revision 1, continued)

*** Weighted averages, using distributions of travel by trip purpose on various modes. Distribution 

by surface modes: 94.4% personal, 5.6% business. Distribution for intercity travel by surface modepersonal, 13.1% business. Distribution for intercity travel by air: 68.7% personal, 31.7% business. derived from on-line analysis of PMT data from the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survat http://www-cta.ornl.gov/npts/1995/Doc/index.shtml
Table 6 (Revision 1)

$3$3$5$

$14

T

320230500

80

1,130

Person-Hrs.

Hours of Travel Time Saved Dollar Value

Category

$11.20 $15.60 $11.20 $18.10 $12.58 

200100

2080

400

Local AutoIntercity AutoTransit PassengersTruck DriversTotal

Vehicle-Hrs. per Hour

Sample Computation of Value of Travel Time Savings
Table 7 (Revision 1)

$2$3$3$

$10

T

320230500

80

1,130

Person-Hrs.

Hours of Travel Time Saved Dollar Value

Category

$7.90 

$13.20 

$7.90 

$18.10

$9.70

200100

2080

400

Local AutoIntercity AutoTransit PassengersTruck DriversTotal

Vehicle-Hrs. per Hour

Sample Computation Using Low Values of Travel Time Savings
Table 8 (Revision 1)

$4$4$6$

$16

T

320230500

80

1,130

Person-Hrs.

Hours of Travel Time Saved Dollar Value

Category

$13.40 $19.80 $13.40 $18.10 $15.04 

200100

2080

400

Local AutoIntercity AutoTransit PassengersTruck DriversTotal

Vehicle-Hrs. per Hour

Sample Computation Using High Values of Travel Time Savings