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Transportation Lifestyles: Getting Started with Mapping

We should be getting more mileage out of vehicle availability data.

Dec 3, 2021

Transportation Lifestyles: Getting Started with Mapping

Dec 3, 2021

Transportation Lifestyles: Lessons for the Future from 2006–2019

Car-free living increased in the United States in 2019 and then everything changed.

Dec 7, 2020

Chart 1. In the USA in 2019, car-free, car-one singles, and car-two+ households increased, families with one car declined.

Dec 7, 2020

Are Car-Free and Car-Lite Lifestyles on the Rebound?

The annual update of transportation lifestyles in the United States reveals sobering — and surprising — findings.

Dec 9, 2019

Are Car-Free and Car-Lite Lifestyles on the Rebound?

Dec 9, 2019

Walking with an Old Dog

An old dog teaches a transportation planner one last lesson.

Sep 4, 2019

Walking with an Old Dog

Sep 4, 2019

Living Car-Free and Car-Lite in the United States: Brief Update with 2017 Data

Americans continue to say yes to personal vehicles.

Dec 4, 2018

Living Car-Free and Car-Lite in the United States: Brief Update with 2017 Data

Dec 4, 2018

Living Car-Free and Car-Lite in the United States: An Update with 2016 Data

It’s over. The boom in car-free and car-lite living that led urbanists and the media to speculate that Americans were letting go of…

Oct 9, 2017

Living Car-Free and Car-Lite in the United States: An Update with 2016 Data

Oct 9, 2017

Transportation Lifestyle Trends in the United States, 2006–2015

Everyone has a transportation lifestyle: it is simply how a person connects to the world and gets things done. I’ve recently published…

Mar 28, 2017

Transportation Lifestyle Trends in the United States, 2006–2015

Mar 28, 2017

The Transportation Lifestyles of American Families, Part 3: What the Data Says

Families in the United States let go of cars in 39 states, 28 of the 50 largest metros, and 25 of their core cities between 2010 and 2015…

Mar 20, 2017

The Transportation Lifestyles of American Families, Part 3: What the Data Says

Mar 20, 2017

The Transportation Lifestyles of Single People, Part 2 — Trends: What the Data Says

The transportation choices of Americans who live alone are important not just because singles make up over one quarter of all households…

Mar 2, 2017

The Transportation Lifestyles of Single People, Part 2 — Trends: What the Data Says

Mar 2, 2017

The Transportation Lifestyles of Single People (Part 1): What the Data Says

Debates continue in the United States over what will happen to young adults’ affection for urban living when they form families. Confidence…

Feb 14, 2017

The Transportation Lifestyles of Single People (Part 1): What the Data Says

Feb 14, 2017

Sarah Jo Peterson

Sarah Jo Peterson

Urban planner and historian. Planning and History face in opposite directions, but they pull in the same direction.

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