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A recent travel survey in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area identified some important changes in trip generation rates. Due to the demographic and labor force changes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area during the 1970s and 1980s, the number and share of home-based nonwork person-trips per household declined. The shares and numbers of home-based work and non-home-based trips have increased during this period. The reduction in home-based trip rates has important implications for urban development and transportation planning. According to the 1984 Dallas-Fort Worth travel survey, the average household-trip rate was 8.68 trips/day, which was fairly stable since 1964. Person-trips per person and vehicle-trips per person, however, increased since 1964, reflecting the smaller household size and automobile occupancy rates of recent periods. The results of the 1984 travel survey also indicated that average trip length in the metropolitan area was about seven mi, average trip duration was 17-19 min, automobile occupancy rate was 1.13 for work trips and 1.5 for nonwork trips, transit mode share was 1.7 percent, and peak-hour travel times were 7-8 a.m. and 5-6 p.m.

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Data collection; Demographics; Households; Interviewing; Labor market; Metropolitan areas; Modal split; Peak periods; Surveys; Transportation planning; Travel patterns; Travel time; Trip generation; Trip length; Trip purpose; Urban development; Urban transportation; Vehicle occupancy; Work trips

Change; Nonwork trips

Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

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