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It has been written that workers currently aged 15-33—known as the Millennial generation— tend to use cars less often, and use alternative modes more often, than those of previous generations. This analysis seeks therefore to determine whether—in fact—such persons do have high usage of alternative modes (“How Different?”), and whether that behavior is expected to continue in the future (“How Enduring?”), i.e. whether we should plan for much higher demand for alternative transportation in the future in Hampton Roads. To answer this question, HRTPO staff isolated generational effects from age and period effects by compiling and regressing a dataset of National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) records from three different years: 1983, 1995, and 2008/2009. The analysis revealed highly significant relationships between alternative mode usage for commuting and nearly all of the independent variables selected, allowing the authors to provide an answer to the stated question.