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Table VM-1 - Roadway Extent, Characteristics, and Performance - Highway Statistics 2005 - FHWA
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ANNUAL VEHICLE DISTANCE TRAVELED IN MILES AND RELATED DATA - 2005 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)
2005 Interstate Rural 122,789 1,356 946 80,173 7,712 43,666 202,962 51,378 256,642
2005 Other Arterial Rural 210,331 1,413 973 143,976 13,815 25,946 354,307 39,762 396,455
2005 Other Rural 210,059 1,566 1,748 137,413 14,450 14,094 347,471 28,544 379,329
2005 All Rural 543,179 4,335 3,667 361,562 35,977 83,706 904,741 119,683 1,032,426
2005 Interstate Urban 266,834 2,270 1,062 160,470 10,536 29,753 427,303 40,289 470,925
2005 Other Urban 898,408 3,849 2,251 519,020 31,982 30,568 1,417,428 62,551 1,486,079
2005 All Urban 1,165,242 6,120 3,313 679,490 42,519 60,321 1,844,731 102,840 1,957,004
2005 Total Rural and Urban 1,708,421 10,454 6,980 1,041,051 78,496 144,028 2,749,472 222,523 2,989,430
2005 Number of motor vehicles registered 4/ 136,568,083 6,227,146 807,053 95,336,839 6,395,240 2,086,759 231,904,922 8,481,999 247,421,120
2005 Average miles traveled per vehicle 12,510 1,679 8,649 10,920 12,274 69,020 11,856 26,235 12,082
2005 Person-miles of travel (millions) 5/ 2,699,305 13,277 147,992 1,804,848 78,496 144,028 4,504,153 222,523 4,887,945
2005 Fuel consumed (thousand gallons) 6/ 77,418,461 189,495 1,120,053 58,869,088 9,501,105 27,688,664 136,287,548 37,189,769 174,786,875
2005 Average fuel consumption per vehicle (gallons) 6/ 567 30 1,388 617 1,486 13,269 588 4,385 706
2005 Average miles traveled per gallon of fuel consumed 6/ 22.1 55.2 6.2 17.7 8.3 5.2 20.2 6.0 17.1

Footnotes

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 are estimated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Entries for 2004 may have been revised based on the availability of more current data. Estimation procedures include use of State-supplied data, the 2002 Census of Transportation Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), and other sources. Some States may still be using 1990 Census-based urbanized area boundaries which may in turn affect highway data by category.

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/ Truck registration figures are from tables MV-1 and MV-9 with truck distribution estimated by the FHWA using the 2002 VIUS.

5/ Vehicle occupancy is estimated by the FHWA from the 2001 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) with nominal values for heavy trucks.

6/ Total fuel consumption figures are from tables MF-21 and MF-27. 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 2002 VIUS, and other sources with nominal values for motorcycles and buses (revised).

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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