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... 2 between air and auto. This section of the Technical Appendix reviews basic information about why the trips are made, who is making them, where they are being made, and how much is spent on them.
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... 3 FIGURE 1-2: COMPONENT ELEMENTS WITHIN "LEISURE" CATEGORY. 1995 Source: McGuckin from American Travel Survey, 1995.
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... 4 THE ROLE OF AGE IN LONG-DISTANCE TRIP-MAKING FIGURE 1-3: ANNUAL MEDIUM TRIPS PER PERSON, BY AGE GROUP (1995) Source: McGuckin from American Travel Survey, showing trips between 100 and 500 miles.
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... 5 FIGURE 1-4: ANNUAL MEDIUM TRIPS PER PERSON, BY INCOME QUARTILE (1995) Source: American Travel Survey, showing trips between 100 and 500 miles.
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... 6 FIGURE 1-5: TRAVEL CORRIDORS BETWEEN 100 AND 500 MILES IN LENGTH Source: NAS Interregional Travel Report. COSTS EXPERIENCED FOR EACH MODE The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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... 7 FIGURE 1-6: AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE BY SPENDING CATEGORY (2014) Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Passenger Travel Facts, Figure 4-4.
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... 8 FIGURE 1-7: HISTORY OF GROWTH IN AIRPORT ENPLANEMENT (1990–2015) Source: Federal Aviation Administration, TAF Summaries The enplanement data illustrate the effects of two periods of economic upheaval.
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... 9 flights from any given airport. In the evolution of services that occurred, airline resources were reallocated from shorter-distance segments to longer-distance segments.
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... 10 data to generate passenger forecasts by airport pair and segment pair. The segment pair passenger forecasts are assigned to aircraft equipment in order to produce segment pair operation forecasts.
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... 11 FIGURE 1-10: ENPLANEMENTS AT CORE AIRPORTS (IN THOUSANDS) Source: TAF, 2016.
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... 12 demographic characteristics of individual pairs of origin destination metropolitan areas. This is a different approach than that taken by the TAF, as it estimates the amount of passenger traffic between metropolitan areas rather than estimating demand at individual airports.
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... 13 1(D) UNDERSTANDING MARKET TRENDS FOR THE AUTOMOBILE HISTORICAL TRENDS IN VMT PER CAPITA BETWEEN 1995 AND 2015 The recent history of automobile travel includes a pattern of yearly increase in-vehicle travel per person, plateauing around 2004 or 2005, as shown in Figure 1-12.
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... 14 FIGURE 1-13: COMPARISON OF GDP AND VMT PATTERNS (1990–2014) Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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... 15 FIGURE 1-14: GROWTH IN ENPLANEMENTS AND VMT FROM 1991 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% Air Auto

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