Tucson is middling among its peer Western metro areas for the percentage of people who carpool to work, according to the Making Action Possible Dashboard, a project of the University of Arizona Economic and Business Research Center, the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, the Pima Association of Governments and the Southern Arizona Leadership Council.

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