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ANNUAL VEHICLE DISTANCE TRAVELED IN KILOMETERS AND RELATED DATA - 2005 1/
BY HIGHWAY CATEGORY AND VEHICLE TYPE

JANUARY 2011 Table VM-1M
YEAR ITEM PASSENGER CARS MOTOR- CYCLES 3/ BUSES OTHER 2-AXLE 4- TIRE VEHICLES 4/ SINGLE- UNIT 2-AXLE 6-TIRE OR MORE TRUCKS 5/ 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-kilometers)
2005 Interstate Rural 197,610 2,183 1,522 129,026 12,411 70,274 326,636 82,685 413,025
2005 Other Arterial Rural 338,495 2,273 1,566 231,707 22,234 41,757 570,202 63,991 638,032
2005 Other Rural 338,057 2,520 2,813 221,144 23,255 22,682 559,201 45,937 610,471
2005 All Rural 874,162 6,976 5,902 581,877 57,900 134,712 1,456,039 192,612 1,661,529
2005 Interstate Urban 429,427 3,654 1,709 258,251 16,957 47,883 687,678 64,839 757,880
2005 Other Urban 1,445,848 6,195 3,623 835,282 51,470 49,195 2,281,129 100,666 2,391,612
2005 All Urban 1,875,275 9,849 5,332 1,093,533 68,427 97,078 2,968,807 165,505 3,149,493
2005 Total Rural and Urban 2,749,437 16,825 11,234 1,675,410 126,327 231,790 4,424,846 358,117 4,811,021
2005 Number of motor vehicles registered 5/ 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 kilometers traveled per vehicle 20,132 2,702 13,919 17,574 19,753 111,077 19,080 42,221 19,445
2005 Person-kilometers of travel (millions) 6/ 4,344,110 21,367 238,170 2,904,621 126,327 231,790 7,248,731 358,117 7,866,385
2005 Fuel consumed (thousand liters) 7/ 293,060,753 717,317 4,239,860 222,843,738 35,965,597 104,812,994 515,904,491 140,778,591 661,640,296
2005 Average fuel consumption per vehicle (liters) 7/ 2,146 115 5,254 2,337 5,624 50,228 2,225 16,597 2,674
2005 Average kilometers traveled per liter of fuel consumed 7/ 9.4 23.5 2.6 7.5 3.5 2.2 8.6 2.5 7.3

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).

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

8/ 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 inputs for motorcycles and buses. Procedures were revised for this table.

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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