And note that Milwaukee and Madison are the # 2 and #3 urbanized areas in the country for reduction of VMT.
Pretty interesting. And on the bike end of things, Madison is #2 in the country for percent increase in bicycling to work. (Portland, OR, is first.) Robbie Webber Transportation Policy Analyst State Smart Transportation Initiative www.ssti.us 608-263-9984 (o) 608-225-0002 (c) [email protected] On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Mary Ebeling <[email protected]> wrote: > A new report out from USPIRG documents significant reductions in > automobile miles traveled and number of workers commuting without a car. > Madison shows a 3% reduction in commuting by car and a 17.7% reduction in > auto miles traveled between 2006 and 2011. Bike/walk/transit trips are > increasing concurrently. > > Time to re-do our travel-demand forecasting models and funding assumptions > to reorient towards multimodal trips, don't you think? > > Here is the link to the report: > > http://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/US_Transp_trans_scrn.pdf > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > >
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