54 National Household Travel Survey

54.1 Organization

Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Data on individual and household travel behavior in the US linked to economic, demographic, and geographic factors
Includes all modes of travel (private vehicle, public transportation, pedestrian, and cycling) and for all purposes (work, school, recreation, personal/family trips)
Examples of use include describing current travel and developing trends over time, energy consumption, environmental concerns, travel of specific demographic groups, modeling and planning applications, and safety

Every few years starting in 1969, ongoing

Household-, person-, worker, vehicle-, and daily-travel level data

Stratified (by geographic designation) random sample of US households
Two-phase study (phase 1 – household survey, phase 2 – personal survey)
Previous surveys have used random digit dialing telephone sampling and computer- assisted telephone interview data collection
2017 survey used address-based sampling with mail-back surveys as the primary mode of completion, and phone or web surveys as secondary modes of completion
2020 Origin–Destination (OD) leverage in-vehicle and smartphone application–generated passive mobility data to summarize travel, annualized trip counts for truck and passenger travel.

Supporting documentation including data dictionary available at https://nhts.ornl.gov/documentation

Free

Also have a tool available for exploring data at the bottom of https://nhts.ornl.gov/ ?