long-distance travel

This project drew on five survey datasets to address research questions related to how best to measure long-distance travel, how long-distance travel influences well-being, and how access to long-distance travel varies among socio-demographic groups.

This policy brief aims to answer the following questions: what is the best way to measure individuals’ long-distance travel in order to inform planning and policy, and what factors are associated with long-distance travel and do they suggest inequitable access to intercity and more distant destinations?

This policy brief summarizes findings and policy implications from a study in which researchers estimated the effect of displaying emissions and costs to flight choice.

The focus of this research is the design and implementation of a carbon calculator that estimates the CO2 emissions of both passenger vehicles and aviation options for surveyed real-world trips.

This Masters thesis describes current methods of transportation data collection and proposes new methods, as well as attempts to quantify the impact on Vermont’s roadways of the transportation-based tourism sector.

Over the last two decades, a limited number of studies have sought to measure attributes of one’s social network and connect these measures to travel. Increasingly, burdensome social network surveys include a contact’s location. This study focuses on long-distance travel, itself a challenge to quantify.