Long-distance travel is an ambiguous designation that is used to refer to an extremely
diverse set of trips, differing from one another in mode, distance, and purpose. Long …

This thesis examines several nuanced issues, including equitable access, regarding long-
distance intercity travel. In the United States, studies of transportation equity focus on …

Long-distance intercity travel has received less attention in planning and research despite
its growing importance and the promise that passive mobile data will at last bring origin and …

In the early years of transportation planning and highway infrastructure development in the
United States the focus was on intercity or long-distance travel, a contrast to the metropolitan …

The objective of this research was to isolate the factors influencing non–distance-based
definitions of long-distance travel to help long-distance survey makers know which …

Long-distance travel research is limited because of the lack of robust data and the
complexity of defining a long-distance trip. The patterns of infrequent long-distance trips are …

This study investigates the transportation disadvantage that low-income, older adults face on
an individual basis. To accomplish this, research team members custom designed an …

Travel has been found to have a positive utility—often measured as a desire for non-zero
travel time. Although past studies have found that desired travel time varies by trip attributes …

Long-distance passenger travel–whether domestic or international–accounts for a small
share of trips, but a large and growing share of travel distances and greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Travel surveys typically collect detailed information about demographics and travel behavior
of households and persons; but their sample sizes are often limited, and trip information is …