Most automobile owners in the United States do not plan on giving up driving—ever. Sixty-two percent of the nation's drivers say they wi...

Stocks are a growing share of the wealth of middle-aged Americans, according to an analysis of the Survey of Consumer Finances by the Federa...

When Americans are asked whether they would ride in a driverless vehicle if given the chance, the naysayers outnumber the yaysayers. The 56 ...

How much do Americans love cars? They love them so much that one in four adults (or their spouse or partner) bought a car or truck in the pa...

Has household spending on transportation peaked? It looks that way. The average household devoted 17.5 percent of its budget to transportati...

The nation's automobiles are rapidly aging, according to an analysis by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In 2012, the average age of the ...

Percentage of households without a vehicle by homeownership status... Total: 9% Owners: 3% Renters: 20% Source: Census Bureau, 2012  Am...

Student loans are crowding cars and homes out of the lives of young adults, according to a Liberty Street Economics analysis by Meta Brown a...

The next time you dash across a busy street, think about this: between 2001 and 2010, an astonishing 47,392 pedestrians were killed by motor...

Are these statistics yet more evidence that helicopter parenting works? The motor vehicle traffic death rate among 15-to-19-year-olds plunge...

The worst part about traffic congestion is not the stop-and-go, delays, or wasted gas, but the unpredictability of it all. If you need to be...

This is scary. According to a study by the CDC, there are a lot of drowsy drivers on the road--and admittedly so. Fully 4.2% of Americans ag...

Nine million households in the United States do not own a vehicle, or 8 percent of the nation's 115 million households. Here are the per...

The Great Recession did little to change the way people get to work and the time it takes to get there. Average travel time to work was 25.5...

Last week the Census Bureau released 2011 American Community Survey data. The data dump includes tables comparing the social and economic ch...

We just can't help ourselves. Whatever we are thinking, doing, and feeling at the moment holds great power over our decisions. That'...

How can American businesses be so dumb? Don't they ever pull their head out of their niche to take a look around? Apparently not, which ...

According to a study by the Federal Reserve Board, individuals who have had foreclosure proceedings begin against them had the following cha...

Percentage of households in the New York metropolitan area without a car, truck, or van: 40%. Source: American Housing Survey for the New...

On a recent road trip, with nothing better to do, I decided to count and categorize every billboard on my side of the highway for a stretch ...