The Sioux Falls Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and the US Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration are combining resources to complete additional surveys in conjunction with the National Household Travel Survey. The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) serves as the nation’s inventory of personal travel. It is the only authoritative source of national data on personal travel behavior including purpose of the trip, means of transportation, trip length, day of week and month of the year, number of people on trip, and a host of other trip-making characteristics.

In order for the NHTS to provide statistically accurate estimates for the Sioux Falls MPO, 1,000 additional households, all within the Sioux Falls metro area, will be interviewed for this survey. Fortunately, planning funds through the Federal Highway Administration have allowed this level of sampling. As such, the 2008 NHTS data can used to calculate trip rates and travel statistics specific to the Sioux Falls metro area.

If you or someone you know has been contacted by the Federal Highway Administration with a letter, please go to www.siouxfalls.org/Planning/transportation/NHTS for more information.