2021 was a hugely impactful year for the way that we commute, and this year’s Average Vehicle Ridership (AVR) surveys demonstrate just how impacted our commutes have been. Throughout the month of September, Go Glendale partnered with the City of Glendale to conduct an AVR survey with each of our member properties in Downtown Glendale. For one week during the month, we asked about your commute routines, your thoughts on public transportation, and ideas on how to make it easier to change the ways that we commute to and from Glendale. Go Glendale then analyzed and summarized these results, bringing you the final results in this post. Take a look at how Glendale commutes, and how things have changed from 2020!

As a note, the Average Vehicle Ridership is a ratio of the number of employee/resident trips over the number of vehicle trips. The higher the ratio, the fewer vehicle trips are being taken in comparison to all trips.

Thank you to the seven properties that participated in the Go Glendale AVR survey this year! This year, we saw a grand shift from driving alone to telecommuting, as well as an overall decline in taking sustainable modes of travel. As businesses reopen and remote jobs move back in-person, we may see this number continue to change throughout the coming months and years.

With an AVR score of 2.43, our ways of getting to work have changed dramatically, and there is still much work to be done to get Glendale travelling sustainably.