An Associated Press article found that the typical American household pays $4,155 a year to fill their gas tanks—or 8.4 percent of median family income. Research by the Center for Neighborhood Technology has found that living in location efficient places—walkable communities with access to amenities and transit—helps people keep transportation costs low compared with people [...]
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Do you have a website where you’d like to be able to show transportation costs? An Abogo API will be available to display this information on external websites. Interested? Contact abogo-info@cnt.org for more information.
The Abogo API reports Average Transportation Cost and Carbon Impact form Driving for the Typical Regional Household for 337 metro areas.
Given latitude and longitude, the API reports:
Transportation Cost
- Monthly transportation Cost for a typical regional household living at that location
- Average Monthly Transportation Cost for households in the region
- Percent difference between the two
CO2 Impact in Metric Tons
- Monthly CO2 output from driving for a typical regional household living at that location
- Average monthly CO2 output from driving for households in the region
- Percent difference Between the two
Income
- Average Monthly Income for the region
Contact abogo-info@cnt.org for more information.
