Conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) is the authoritative source on the travel behavior of the American public. It is the only source of national level data that allows researchers to analyze trends in personal and household travel. It includes daily non-commercial travel by all modes as well as traveler characteristics.
FHWA has launched the Next-Generation National Household Travel Survey (NextGen NHTS) to establish a more continuous travel monitoring program with national and local data products. In addition to a probabilistic core travel survey, NextGen NHTS also includes an origin-destination (OD) data program that will produce multimodal passenger and truck travel OD tables at the national and local levels from passively collected data sources. University of Maryland (UMD) has been competitively selected to produce the OD data for the NextGen NHTS program.
National Passenger OD Product Specification
- Time-Period: 2020-2024 full calendar year
- Coverage: All 50 states and District of Columbia
- Zones: FHWA’s specified 582 zones
- Trips Covered: All trips, inter-zonal and intra-zonal
- Modes: Air, Rail, Vehicle, Other
- Purpose: Work, Non-Work
- Distance: (0, 10], (10, 25], (25, 50], (50, 75], (75, 100], (100, 150], (150, 300], >300 miles
- Seasonality: Annual OD in 2020; Monthly OD in 2021~2024
National Truck OD Product Specification
- Time-Period: 2020-2024 full calendar year
- Coverage: All 50 states and District of Columbia
- Zones: FHWA’s specified 582 zones
- Trips Covered: All trips, inter-zonal and intra-zonal
- Distance: (0, 10], (10, 25], (25, 50], (50, 75], (75, 100], (100, 150], (150, 300], >300 miles
- Seasonality: Annual OD in 2020~2024
National OD Zone Structure:
For national level data, the FHWA has developed 582 zones. Of the 582 zones,446 are derived from the original 389 OMB defined metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and 136 are newly created zones by the FHWA from rural or Micropolitan Statistical areas.
University of Maryland Team Strengths:
- High quality products using extensive data, rigorous computation and validation methods;
- Robust and sustainable data sources for passenger and truck travel;
- Transparency in raw data, computation methods, and final data product validation;
- Proven track record in delivering national OD data to FHWA;
- Experience in delivering passive data products to agencies in all 50 states and D.C.; and
- Expertise with the NHTS program and prior NHTS surveys.
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