Post War Travel Trends in the Salt Lake Urban Area

摘要

This paper focuses on examining the travel and, to a lesser extent, socio-economic characteristics in the Salt Lake Area as revealed in a Home Interview 1993 survey as well as through a comparison of various trends from the 1960s through the present. Short of drawing extensive conclusions regarding which trends are the cause or end product of other trends, this paper simply reports the observed conditions. In its simplest form, this paper reports strong growth in the Salt Lake Area, suburban land use patterns, predominant single occupant automobile travel, levels of traffic congestion which have been increasing, and a projected outlook for more of the same over the next twenty years. General topics to be discussed include personal travel characteristics and trends, regional travel characteristics and trens, land use trends, an outlook for the tuture, and finally a brief conclusion on the general implications which can be drawn.