Since 1977, travel for household maintenance trips (nonwork) grew fivefold.
More recently, year-over-year increases in vehicle miles of travel has stalled.
Almost all Boomers will travel for leisure in 2017, taking an average of 5 trips.
Impact of Baby Boomers on U.S. Travel, 1969-2009
The Baby Boom Generation has fueled much of the growth in travel over the past 40 years—both in the number of travelers and in the amount of travel per person. This paper describes economic, residential, and cultural changes at the center of this historic growth in travel, through analysis of four decades of travel data.
