We are pleased to announce the release of The Mobility Dashboard (TMD), a web-based platform for analyzing travel behavior patterns from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data series, spanning from 2003 to the present. Developed with support from the USDOT-sponsored National University Transportation Center for Understanding Future Travel Behavior and Demand (TBD), the dashboard is designed to make this rich dataset more accessible for research, planning, and policy analysis.
ATUS provides detailed information on daily activity and travel episodes, but working with the raw data often requires substantial preprocessing and coding efforts. TMD addresses this by offering an intuitive, flexible, and user-friendly interface to extract insights across four topical areas: Trip Purpose, Travel Mode, Zero-Trip Making, and Day Pattern. Users can explore ATUS data at both the person and trip level, with options to filter by year and user-defined population subgroups.
The dashboard enables users to examine measures such as:
✔️ Daily trip rates and travel durations by purpose and mode
✔️ Temporal distribution of travel episodes
✔️ Zero-trip making rates
✔️ Day patterns and trip chains
🔗 Explore the dashboard here: https://tomnetutc.github.io/tmd
TMD is the second major dashboard incorporated into the TBD Hub—one of the two flagship endeavors of the TBD Center—following the earlier launch of the Time Use, Travel, and Telework Dashboard (T3D) in May 2024.
The dashboard development was led by Dr. Irfan Batur (TBD Assistant Director) and carried out by a multidisciplinary team across the TBD Center consortium. More details about the dashboard and the development team are available on the About page.