U.S. Personal Mobility Data on Commuting and Tourism

Moving People tracks the how, where, and why of human movement across the United States. The dataset captures a shift in mobility patterns from daily commutes to leisure travel and long-distance tourism. It is published by the U.S. Department of Transportation and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling changes in daily commuting patterns based on the described shift in mobility.
• Analyzing the growth of leisure travel and tourism based on the tracking of long-distance movement.
• Forecasting transportation demand based on the described 'how, where, and why' of personal mobility.

Strengths

• Dataset is published by the U.S. Department of Transportation, an authoritative source.
• Last updated on 2026-03-04, suggesting recent data.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

U.S. Department of Transportation

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-04 08:34:17.181283

Geography

United States