The 1990 San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission Household Survey

Dataset · Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2026

DOI:https://doi.org/10.15483/1924755· OSTI ID:1924755

Team, TSDC ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

The San Francisco Bay Area's Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the regional transportation planning agency for the nine-county Bay Area conducted the survey. The basic purpose for the survey was for the development of travel demand models to simulate the various components of travel behavior: auto ownership, trip frequency (trip generation), and the distribution of trips between origins and destinations by travel mode. Planners at MTC envisioned the 1990 survey as the first wave of a multi-wave household panel survey designed to capture both short- and long-term changes in regional travel behavior. The 1990 survey collected single-weekday travel data from nearly 9,900 Bay Area households and multiple-weekday travel data from nearly 1,500 households. The 1990 survey effort also included a separate sub-project, funded by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District, to collect multiple-weekday travel data from 1,000 BART-using households. The BART survey and the MTC multiple-weekday survey were completed in the spring of 1990; the MTC single-weekday survey was continued and completed during the autumn of 1990.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Idaho National Laboratory
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1924755
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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