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Abstract

he National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) Conference, Data for Understanding Our Nation's Travel, was designed as a forum for users of this national data set to discuss and learn about methodological issues; analysis and estimation applications; and findings related to transportation policy, planning, and modeling.It followed by 5 years its predecessor conference, Personal Travel: The Long and Short of It, which focused on the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey and American Travel Survey.The present conference was held in Washington, D.C., on November 1-2, 2004, approximately 1 year after the release of the final data from the 2001 survey and coincided with the planning of future U.S. Department of Transportation household travel behavior surveys.The effort to bring together a diverse set of data users was intended to develop a community of users who would better understand the utility and analytic capability of the data and subsequently provide feedback to inform the design of future national travel behavior surveys.This conference offered a unique opportunity for transportation professionals at the federal, state, and local levels, as well as for academics and other transportation researchers to• Discuss results of NHTS-based investigations of critical areas for transportation policy,• Learn about innovative applications of the data to understand and estimate travel behavior,• Provide input on the design of future national household travel surveys,• Identify emerging trends and data needs that should be reflected in future survey efforts, and• Discover data sources that complement the NHTS data in providing a more complete picture of travel behavior in the United States.The planning committee represented personal travel data producers, analysts, and modelers and was chaired by Johanna Zmud, Nustats Partners, LP.The 132 persons attending reflected organizational diversity.Their distribution is as follows: Organization Type % USDOT 23 State government 6 Metropolitan planning organization or local government 11 University 18 Private company 28 Other 14 The committee convened regularly over almost a year to organize the 1½-day program, which combined • Overviews of current and future survey plans; • Paper sessions that reported both uses of NHTS data and methodological issues; • Workshops, anchored by resource papers, at which key issues were explored; and T ii Transportation Research Circular E-C071: Data for Understanding Our Nation's Travel

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