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> I travel far FAR less often now than a few years ago. So do I. I never found flying particularly pleasant, whether economy or business class, and after a dec
by j-g-faustus 16y ago
> I travel far FAR less often now than a few years ago.
So do I. I never found flying particularly pleasant, whether economy or business class, and after a decade of frequent business flying I pick other alternatives (including staying at home) whenever I can.
But the US travel statistics
http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_01_37.html http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_stat...
seems to say that "people" still fly more - 350 bill. passenger miles in 1990, 530 bill. in 2000, 583 in 2008. Although it's down a bit from the peak years 2006-2007.
- logic 16y agoI'm a visual kind of guy, so I pulled those travel stats into Google Docs: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqzimL8-eYhYdDdkcC1fS3I1VkFsQWppUDhGWDVCM2c&hl=en https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AqzimL8-eYhYdDdkcC1... The chart sheet has a graph of total miles traveled. Compare to US population: http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=population&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=state&tdim=true&tstart=331257600000&tunit=M&tlen=348&hl=en&dl=en http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=uspopulation&ctype=l...
- korch 16y agoHow did you pull those stats into Google Docs? It was automated, right? If Google Docs can take an arbitrary page, figure out what the data is and slurp it into a spreadsheet, then there are some very interesting kinds of data mashups to make!
- logic 16y agoSadly, no: I just imported the excel spreadsheet that's on the page j-g-faustus linked to. :) However, you can just cut-and-paste a traditional HTML table into Google Docs, and in most cases, it works exactly as you'd expect. Automating that is left as an exercise to the reader. :)