Driving continues a downward trend
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) reported recently that April 2008 marked the sixth consecutive month of declining vehicle miles traveled on US highways. In April, the FHWA recorded 1.4 billion fewer highway miles driven than during the same month last year. April itself was also down 400 million miles compared to the prior month of March 2008. Travel on all public roads, not just highways, is down an astonishing 30 billion miles since November 2007.
Stated another way, in the adult (driving) population (consisting of approximately 218 million people at least 20 years in age), driving is currently dropping at a rate of roughly 275 miles per person, per year.
Posted: Tuesday, Jul 1, 2008 7:57 pm by adam
File as: Conservation and Sustainability
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