This study assesses long-distance (LD) travel demand in near-future scenarios where automated vehicles (AVs) are easily available. Stated and revealed preference data were obtained from 1,004 American adults. The survey includes questions about general LD trip-making behavior with AVs, after investigating the possibility of using AVs to substitute for respondents’ recent LD trips (over 75-miles one-way) prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. After cleaning and weighting the responses, respondents’ willingness to use AVs for a past LD trip are shared, and their future travel behaviors with AVs are explored via statistical models. Ordered logit regression model results suggest AVs would increase the trip-making frequency of high-income households, households with more children, and young people who are part-time employed. The multinomial logit model for overnight stopping suggests that high-income travelers prefer staying overnight in hotels, while young and solo-drivers are expected to more often stay overnight in moving AVs. Mornings departures are preferred for LD travel - both with and without AVs, but some travelers shift to later departures when AVs become available, particularly those who are employed full-time and/or have more children in their household. Results of the mode choice model for mid-range LD travel (200 to 500 miles) suggest those who are unmarried and/or employed full time prefer AVs, while those over age 65 do not. Car and AV cost are the most practically significant variables impacting people’s mode choices, and aircraft and AVs are more appealing than human-driven vehicles for trips over 500 miles long.
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