Recent news coverage has highlighted the findings of the 2022 Seattle Commute Survey, in which Urban Design and Planning PhD candidate Lamis Ashour and faculty members Qing Shen and Anne Vernez Moudon played leading roles.
The Seattle Commute Survey takes place every two years as required by state law. For the most recent survey, Commute Seattle teamed up with UW’s Mobility Innovation Center and the Department of Urban Design and Planning. The team redesigned the survey questionnaire to cover more comprehensively employees’ commute options and work models and to obtain a thorough understanding of the changes in spatiotemporal patterns of commute and non-commute trips and travel behavior, motives, and needs.
After the collection and analysis of more than 64,000 responses, the resulting data portray key characteristics of a new normal in urban transportation and show important transportation equity issues, which have major planning and policy implications.
These important results did not go unnoticed by local media, examples of which can be found here:
KING 5: More remote work, more grocery trips: How Seattle’s commuting habits changed since pandemic
Seattle Times: Your old workweek is extinct, Commute Seattle data shows