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Introduction
This document summarizes the use and applications of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
data in transportation planning and related activities from April 2006 to May 2011. Published papers,
presentations, and monographs that cited the use of the data from the NHTS were searched using the
Transport Research International Documentation (TRID). TRID is a newly integrated database that
combines the records from TRB's Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database and the
OECD's Joint Transport Research Centre’s International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD)
Database. http://trid.trb.org/
The search terms used were “National Household Travel Survey”, OR “NHTS” OR “Nationwide Personal
Travel Survey”, “NPTS” OR “National Personal Travel Survey.” The resulting abstracts were examined
to select papers/presentations that are most relevant to the conference. Each paper was grouped under the
following 11 categories, in line with the sessions planned for the conference.
1. Bike and Pedestrian Studies
2. Demographic Trends
3. Energy Consumption
4. Environment
5. Policy and Mobility
6. Special Population Groups
7. Survey, Data Synthesis, and Other Applications
8. Traffic Safety
9. Transit Planning
10. Travel Behavior
11. Trend Analysis and Market Segmentation
A one-page description of each citation, including the title, authors, publication date, abstract, search and
index terms, and availability are shown.
Acknowledgements
Search and documentation support was provided by Jessica Fomalont and Lisa Loyo (TRB). Nanda
Srinivasan (TRB) and Adella Santos (FHWA) categorized and formatted the paper abstracts.