Transportation Trends

The City of Cambridge is proud to encourage the use of sustainable forms of transportation: walking, biking, public transit, carpooling, and so on. While Cambridge has long been a popular city for cyclists and walkers, with the support and efforts of residents, workers, and business owners, Cambridge has been able to become even more sustainable since 2000. For more information about the way the Departments of Traffic, Parking & Transportation and Community Development have been investing in a more sustainable future and how Cambridge residents, visitors, and workers work, shop, and play sustainably, check out this special online version of the new "Transportation Trends in Cambridge" publication, or view/download the original PDF of the pamphlet here.

  • Transportation Trends page 1: Thank you for traveling sustainably!
  • Transportation Trends page 2: More residents are commuting sustainably.
  • Transportation Trends page 3: Cambridge is #1 among large cities for the percent of residents who walk or bike to work!
  • Transportation Trends page 4: Fewer resident parking permits are issued each year.
  • Transportation Trends page 5: The number of vehicles per household is decreasing.
  • Transportation Trends page 6: Bicycling has increased with investments in bicycling facilities.
  • Transportation Trends page 7: Bicycle commutes are increasing, and the City is tracking them in new ways.
  • Transportation Trends page 8:L Cambridge workers increasingly travel sustainably.
  • Transportation Trends page 9: Driving to work alone has decreased in popularity.
  • Transportation Trends page 10: Traffic has remained steady despite increases in jobs and housing.
  • Transportation Trends page 11: Shoppers are decreasing their reliance on cars.
  • Transportation Trends page 12: Public transit is increasingly used throughout Cambridge.
  • Transportation Trends page 13: A quarter of a million public transit trips begin or end in Cambridge every day!
  • Transportation Trends page 14: Hubway, the bicycle sharing service, is well-used and expanding.
  • Transportation Trends page 15: For more information, visit TP&T and CDD online.
  • Transportation Trends page 16: City of Cambridge has a number of policies and programs that shift drive-alone trips to sustainable travel.