PPACG Partners for Regional Travel Survey

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December 18, 2009

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PPACG partners for regional travel survey

Beginning in January 2010, over 1,500 households in the Pikes Peak region will have a unique opportunity to help plan our community’s future transportation needs. The Front Range Travel Counts survey is the first in-depth study of urban household travel behavior covering all of Colorado’s Front Range. PPACG has joined with three other Front Range Metropolitan Planning Agencies (MPOs) and three government agencies to survey travel patterns in the region.


The four MPOs sponsoring the survey are PPACG, the North Front Range Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Denver Regional Council of Governments, and the Pueblo Area Council of Governments. Governmental survey partners are the Colorado Department of Transportation, the Regional Transportation District and the Federal Highway Administration.


Front Range Travel Counts will randomly contact households to participate. Once enrolled, approximately 12,000 participants along the Front Range will receive a travel diary and instructions for recording travel. To ensure the study reaches a representative sample, each household will also be asked about access to transportation and socioeconomic characteristics. This will enable planners to tie individual and household characteristics to the trips actually made  to determine, for instance, if the number of vehicles owned or the number of children in a household affects daily activities. Survey results will help identify where highway, street, public transit, bicycle and pedestrian facility improvements will be made in the Front Range.


Surveys began in the Denver metro area in September 2009 and will conclude in spring 2010; surveys will begin in the Pikes Peak area in January 2010 and in the Pueblo area in the spring of 2010.

PPACG is a voluntary association of 16 municipal and county governments serving a regional community. Since 1967, PPACG has worked to ensure that local governments have a forum to discuss issues that cross their political boundaries, identify shared opportunities and challenges, and develop collaborative strategies for action.

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