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Table HM-12 – Highway Statistics 2012 – Office of Highway Policy Information (OHPI) – FHWA

Highway Statistics Series

Highway Statistics 2012


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PUBLIC ROAD LENGTH - 2012 (1)
    MILES BY TYPE OF SURFACE AND OWNERSHIP/
    FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM NATIONAL SUMMARY

October 2013
Table HM-12

OWNERSHIP/
FUNCTIONAL SYSTEM		 UNPAVED PAVED (2) TOTAL
BITUMINOUS CONCRETE COMPOSITE TOTAL
Rural:            
  State Highway Agency: (3)            
    Interstate 0 16,848 6,017 5,167 28,032 28,032
    Other Freeways & Expressways 0 1,756 1,483 757 3,996 3,996
    Other Principal Arterial 264 68,767 5,389 13,598 87,754 88,018
    Minor Arterial 86 104,013 2,390 17,671 124,075 124,161
    Major Collector 1,204 210,401 4,811 10,432 225,644 226,848
    Subtotal 1,554 401,786 20,091 47,625 469,502 471,056
  Other Jurisdictions:            
    Interstate - 649 139 686 1,474 1,474
    Other Freeways & Expressways - 21 3 20 44 44
    Other Principal Arterial 3 437 232 127 795 799
    Minor Arterial 238 6,982 187 120 7,289 7,528
    Major Collector 41,023 125,620 14,546 5,222 145,388 186,410
    Subtotal 41,265 133,708 15,107 6,175 154,990 196,254
  Federal Agency:            
    Interstate - 96 - - 96 96
    Other Freeways & Expressways - - - - - -
    Other Principal Arterial - 69 45 - 114 114
    Minor Arterial - 277 251 - 528 528
    Major Collector 495 1,990 - - 1,990 2,485
    Subtotal 495 2,432 295 - 2,727 3,222
Subtotal 43,314 537,925 35,493 53,800 627,218 670,533
    Minor Collector 86,367   175,822 262,189
    Local 1,227,758     809,219 2,036,977
Total Rural 1,357,439       1,612,259 2,969,699
Urban:            
  State Highway Agency: (3)            
    Interstate 1 6,780 3,844 3,821 14,445 14,446
    Other Freeways & Expressways 1 4,826 2,557 2,080 9,463 9,464
    Other Principal Arterial 51 26,179 4,399 12,193 42,770 42,821
    Minor Arterial 21 24,195 1,614 7,940 33,750 33,771
    Major Collector 0 16,319 1,219 1,691 19,229 19,229
    Minor Collector 3 852 - - 852 855
      Subtotal 78 79,151 13,633 27,724 120,508 120,586
  Other Jurisdictions:            
    Interstate 11 385 131 660 1,175 1,186
    Other Freeways & Expressways - 516 181 91 788 788
    Other Principal Arterial 22 15,241 1,978 1,234 18,453 18,475
    Minor Arterial 696 58,527 6,215 4,569 69,312 70,007
    Major Collector 1,840 78,055 6,252 4,066 88,373 90,213
    Minor Collector 6 1,207 7 0 1,214 1,220
    Subtotal 2,575 153,931 14,764 10,619 179,314 181,889
  Federal Agency:            
    Interstate - 13 5 1 19 19
    Other Freeways & Expressways - 58 4 0 63 63
    Other Principal Arterial - 16 32 2 49 49
    Minor Arterial - 34 2 1 38 38
    Major Collector - 81 - 2 83 83
    Minor Collector 8 - - - - 8
    Subtotal 8 202 44 7 253 261
Subtotal 2,661 233,284 28,441 38,350 300,075 302,736
    Local 57,804   734,027 791,831
Total Urban 60,465       1,034,102 1,094,567
Total Rural and Urban 1,417,904 771,209 63,934 92,150 2,646,361 4,064,265

(1) Includes the 50 States and the District of Columbia. Some differences from other tables may be noted because these are estimated from sample and summary data; some States may have missing/incomplete data.

(2) Paved includes the following categories: Bituminous -- bituminous, asphalt-concrete (AC) overlay over existing AC pavement; Concrete -- JPCP jointed plain concrete pavement, JRCP jointed reinforced concrete pavement, CRCP continuously reinforced concrete pavment; unbonded jointed concrete overlay on PCC pavement, bonded PCC overlay on PCC pavement, other (includes "whitetopping"); Composite -- AC overlay over jointed concrete pavement, AC (bituminous overlay over existing CRCP).

(3) Prior to 1999 included other state agency roads.

 

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