Nationwide personal transportation study, 1977 [United States]
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
Series: ICPSR -- 7992; ICPSR (Series) -- 7992
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Automotive Transportation
Description: The Nationwide Personal Transportation Study (NPTS) was designed to collect information on all trips taken during a designated 24-hour period and some additional detail on trips of 75 miles or more during the preceding 14-day period. Data was also gathered on the availability and use of public transportation, types of motorized vehicles available to the household, characteristics of the trips taken including mode, purpose, miles traveled, time required, and persons on the trip. There are thirty-two files, eight files per quarter. The files are: Household Characteristics, Household Members, Household Vehicle Information, Occupation and Travel-to-Work Data, Travel Day Trip Data, 14-Day Travel Period Trips, Stop Data for 14-day Travel Period Trips, and Annual Long Trip Data from the National Travel Survey for the 13,365 households common to both studies.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Data collected: 1977.

United States.

Data files are in logical record length format.

Files range in size from 800 records to 26,000 records.