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Originally Posted by fielderLS3
Are those numbers mean or median?
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Actually it does not specify....
National Household Travel Survey
Daily Travel Quick Facts
Daily Travel is a trip from one point to another on a single day.
How We Travel
* 87 percent of daily trips take place in personal vehicles
* 91 percent of people commuting to work use personal vehicles
How Many Trips We Take Every Day
* Americans take 1.1 billion trips a day — four for every person in the U.S
* U.S. daily travel averages 11 billion miles a day — almost 40 miles per person per day
How Many Trips We Take in a Year
* Americans take 411 billion daily trips a year or about 1,500 trips per person
* U.S. daily travel totals about 4 trillion miles — 14,500 miles per person
Why We Travel
* 45 percent of daily trips are taken for shopping and errands
* 27 percent of daily trips are social and recreational, such as visiting a friend
* 15 percent of daily trips are taken for commuting
What We Drive
* There are 204 million personal vehicles available for regular use
o 57 percent are cars or station wagons
o 21 percent are vans or SUVs
o 19 percent are light trucks
When We Travel
* The most daily trips are made on Friday (16 percent)
* The fewest daily trips are made on Sunday (13 percent)
* More daily trips are taken between noon and 1 p.m. (7.4 percent) than between 8 a.m. - 9 a.m. (5.5 percent)
The Average Driver
* Spends 55 minutes a day behind the wheel
* Drives 29 miles a day
Men vs. Women
* Women drive less (21 to 38 miles per day)
* Men drive longer (67 to 44 minutes per day)
http://www.bts.gov/programs/national...ly_travel.html