National Household Travel Survey - 2009

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration

Version:  View help for Version V1

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2009_NHTS_Codebook.pdf application/pdf 196.7 KB 07/29/2025 08:50:AM
2009_NHTS_Data_Dictionary.xls application/vnd.ms-excel 2.1 MB 04/21/2025 10:46:AM
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Project Citation: 

United States Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. National Household Travel Survey - 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-07-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E236966V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title National Household Travel Survey - 2009
Summary:  View help for Summary Conducted by the Federal Highway Administration, the NHTS is the authoritative source on the travel behavior of the American public. It is the only source of national data that allows one to analyze trends in personal and household travel. It includes daily non-commercial travel by all modes, including characteristics of the people traveling, their household, and their vehicles. The NHTS dataset contains data for all 150,147 completed households in the sample including household, person, vehicle and daily (travel day) trip level data.


Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://nhts.ornl.gov/download.shtml

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms transportation; commuting (travel); holiday travel; vehicles
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; event/transaction data; survey data


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