TRAVEL SURVEY CALLS COMPLETED
Our thanks go out to all 3,750 residents who answered the Household Travel and Activity Inventory survey. Over the past several months randomly called households in northwest Indiana were asked to answer questions about the family's travel habits. The information adds more data to the census travel to work questions and allows NIRPC to better forecast where new roads or public transit services may be needed.
NIRPC conducted the Household Travel and Activity Inventory in cooperation with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP), which is the designated metropolitan planning organization for the greater Chicago metro area.
The decennial census provides an important collection of work trip information, but does not cover the wide range of travel patterns needed to complete the daily travel picture. Trips for shopping, medical appointments, recreation and many other purposes actually comprise the majority of travel on the region’s transportation system. Regional transportation network models are becoming more elaborate and are including more comprehensive analysis methods. These models need current data and new types of travel information. NIRPC’s last survey of this type was conducted in 1995. The Chicago Area Transportation Study (now CMAP) completed its last survey of this type in 1991.
Watch this space for results of the survey and a look at why, where, when, and how the region travels!
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