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Of the nearly six million people who live in the D.C. metro area, 41 percent are expected to engage in holiday travel, a 3.3 percent increase from 2013.

And of those 2,450,700 people, 91 percent (!) are expected to travel by vehicle, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. John Townsend of AAA attributes this 3.5 percent increase from last year on falling gas prices.

“Not only is this the biggest exodus since the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, it is also the highest number of holiday travelers hailing from this area since records have been kept,” Townsend said in a release.

Only four percent of travelers are expected to travel by train out of Union Station, by bus at local terminals or by cruiseship. Air travel is projected to increase by 5.4 percent, with 131,700 locals expected to visit an airport.