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13 Perhaps the best place to start when approaching bicycle and pedestrian planning is to gain an understanding of the basic parameters of bicycle and pedestrian travel: • How much do people walk or bike? • How far do they travel?
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14 NHTS is 0.7 miles (and 15 minutes of travel time) ; for bike travel, average one-way distance is 2.3 miles (19.4 minutes of travel time)
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Figure 2-1. Walk trips by distance (2007/08 MWCOG Regional Travel Survey)
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16 are one-half mile or less. Overall, 90% of all walk trips are 1 mile or less.
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17 tarian purposes is much more common. Although exercise and recreation are certainly important in relation to health benefits, the market for increasing non-motorized travel in the United States is more likely to come from daily family and personal needs.
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18 groups. For walking, males walk at higher rates in the youngest age groups – 5 to 15, and 16 to 24 – while females walk at similar or slightly higher rates in all other age groups; a similar relationship is seen in the use of walking to access transit.
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19 are made by walking, 9% by walking to transit and 3% by bicycle. If only one vehicle is owned, the walk trip rate drops to 13%, walk to transit drops to 2%, and bike drops to 1%.
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20 0% 2% 4% 6% 8% 10% 12% 14% Less than High School Graduate High School Graduate, includes GED Some College or Associate Degree (Vocaonal) Bachelor's Degree (BA, AB, BS)
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