Holiday Travel Forecast: Trains, planes and automobiles

The annual Thanksgiving travel survey by the auto group AAA found that 978,000 people -- 16.4 percent of the Washington area's population -- planned to travel more than 50 miles over the four-day weekend. Most of them, 824,000, plan to drive, although gas is 60 cents a gallon more expensive than last year, AAA said Friday. That's a 3.6 percent increase over the number who traveled last year during the holiday.

John Townsend, manager of Public and Government Affairs at AAA Mid-Atlantic, was online Tuesday, Nov. 24, at 1 p.m. ET to offer tips and advice for your holiday travel by car, plane or by train.

Since 2000 the number of Americans traveling by air during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend has dropped 62 percent, according to the AAA 2009 Leisure Travel Index. AAA's national survey predicted that the number of people who will fly to their Thanksgiving destinations will fall by 6.7 percent this year.

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