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Highway Statistics 2002 - FHWA

ANNUAL VEHICLE DISTANCE TRAVELED IN MILES AND RELATED DATA - 2002 1/

BY HIGHWAY CATEGORY AND VEHICLE TYPE

January 2011 Table VM-1
YEAR ITEM PASSENGER
CARS
MOTOR­CYCLES BUSES OTHER
2-AXLE 4-TIRE
VEHICLES 2/
SINGLE-UNIT
2-AXLE 6-TIRE
OR MORE TRUCKS 3/
COMBINATION
TRUCKS
SUBTOTALS ALL
MOTOR VEHICLES
PASSENGER
CARS
AND
OTHER 2-AXLE
4-TIRE VEHICLES
SINGLE-UNIT
2-AXLE 6-TIRE
OR MORE AND
COMBINATION
TRUCKS
  Motor-Vehicle Travel: (millions of vehicle-miles)
2002 Interstate Rural 138,819 1,212 943 85,132 8,765 45,738 223,951 54,503 280,609
2002 Other Arterial Rural 238,009 1,623 1,104 150,758 14,610 27,826 388,767 42,436 433,930
2002 Other Rural 232,111 1,610 1,894 148,295 14,907 14,038 380,406 28,945 412,855
2002 All Rural 608,939 4,445 3,941 384,185 38,282 87,602 993,124 125,884 1,127,394
2002 Interstate Urban 243,521 1,670 803 130,174 9,119 23,921 373,695 33,040 409,208
2002 Other Urban 806,014 3,437 2,101 451,675 28,465 27,214 1,257,689 55,679 1,318,906
2002 All Urban 4/ 1,049,535 5,107 2,904 581,849 37,584 51,135 1,631,384 88,719 1,728,114
2002 Total Rural and Urban 1,658,474 9,552 6,845 966,034 75,866 138,737 2,624,508 214,603 2,855,508
2002 Number of motor vehicles registered 5/ 135,920,677 5,004,156 760,717 85,011,305 5,650,619 2,276,661 220,931,982 7,927,280 234,624,135
2002 Average miles traveled per vehicle 12,202 1,909 8,998 11,364 13,426 60,939 11,879 27,071 12,171
2002 Person-miles of travel (millions) 6/ 2,620,389 12,131 145,124 1,674,792 75,866 138,737 4,295,181 214,603 4,667,038
2002 Fuel consumed (thousand gallons) 7/ 75,471,258 191,040 999,563 55,220,108 10,320,611 26,479,630 130,691,366 36,800,241 168,682,210
2002 Average fuel consumption per vehicle (gallons) 7/ 555 38 1,314 650 1,826 11,631 592 4,642 719
2002 Average miles traveled per gallon of fuel consumed 7/ 22.0 50.0 6.8 17.5 7.4 5.2 20.1 5.8 16.9

1/ The 50 states and the District of Columbia report travel by highway category, number of motor vehicles registered, and total fuel consumed. The travel and fuel data by vehicle type and stratification of trucks, as well as related data, are calculated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Entries for 2001 may have been revised based on the availability of more current data. Estimation procedures include use of the 1997 Census of Transportation Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS) and independent analysis of light truck travel.

2/ Other 2-Axle 4-Tire Vehicles which are not passenger cars. These include vans, pickup trucks, and sport/utility vehicles.

3/ Single-Unit 2-Axle 6-Tire or More Trucks on a single frame with at least two axles and six tires.

4/ Urban consists of travel on all roads and streets in urban places with 5,000 or greater population.

5/ Stratification of the truck figures is made by the FHWA based on State-supplied data and the 1997 VIUS. Combination trucks represent approximately the number of tractors with semi-trailer(s) and a majority of heavy single-unit trucks used regularly in combination with trailer(s).

6/ As estimated by the FHWA using the 2001 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS).

7/ Total fuel consumption figures are derived from state fuel tax records and reflect latest available data. Distribution by vehicle type is estimated by the FHWA based on miles per gallon for both diesel and gasoline powered vehicles using State-supplied data, the 1997 VIUS, and other sources as a baseline.

The data now on the website for 2000-2006 were estimated using a methodology developed in the late 1990s. FHWA recently developed a new methodology and used it for this year's Highway Statistics. This methodology takes advantage of additional and improved information available beginning in 2007 when states were first required to report motorcycle data – before that time, the reporting was not mandatory and the data were missing for a few states. Also, the new methodology does not rely on data from the national vehicle inventory and use survey which provided critical data for the original methodology but was not collected in 2007 as planned.

In April 2011, FHWA recalculated the 2000-2008 data along with the 2009 data to estimate trends. However, after further review and consideration, the agency determined that it is more reliable to retain the original 2000-2006 estimates because the information available for those years does not fully meet the requirements of the new methodology. Thus, the original 2000-2006 estimates are now used, whereas the 2007-2009 data are still based on the new methodology.


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