Let’s Do the Time Warp Again: U.S. DOT Fails to Get Travel Forecasting Right
The U.S. Department of Transportation seems to be stuck in a bizarre time warp. For nine years in a row Americans have decreased their average driving miles. Yet U.S. DOT’s most recent biennial report to Congress on the state of the nation’s transportation system, released last Friday, forecasts that total vehicle miles will increase between 1.36 percent to 1.85 percent each year through 2030.
March 3, 2014
What Did UCLA Really Discover About Millennials’ Reasons for Driving Less?
Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent report on shifting transportation habits.
November 5, 2013