With trips to drop off kids at day care, hit the gym and pick up groceries, area residents are taking many extra trips beyond the daily slog to work.

Commuting to work makes up less than a fifth of the daily trips local residents take, according to a survey of household travel habits scheduled to be presented this week to the National Capital Transportation Planning Board. That’s part of a steady decline, down from one-third of all trips in 1968.

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