Tag: Demographics

  • February 22nd, 2016

U.S. Driving Tops 3.1 Trillion Miles In 2015, New Federal Data Show Year-End Estimates Show U.S. Drivers Shattered Record Set in 2007 WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that U.S. driving reached 3.148 trillion miles by the end of 2015, beating the previous […]

  • February 12th, 2016

Mike Maciag, February 2016 The battle to reduce traffic fatalities may have hit a roadblock after showing impressive results over the past several years. The latest federal estimates show an 8 percent uptick in traffic deaths over the first half of 2015 compared to the prior year. While the projection covers a short time period, […]

  • January 29th, 2016

The Federal Highway Administration said vehicle miles traveled in November on all U.S. roads reached an estimated 253.2 billion VMT, up 4.3 percent from a year earlier and continuing a trend that should make 2015 the heaviest traffic volume year in U.S. history. For the first 11 months of 2015, the agency said, total U.S. […]

  • January 25th, 2016

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration releases a monthly report containing traffic data comparing each State. They host traffic data from as far back as 1970. You can find out more Here

  • January 16th, 2016

USATODAY: Young adults are ditching driver’s licenses at a quickening pace, according to a new study, raising a red flag for automakers as they grapple with the emergence of ride-sharing services and an indifferent attitude about cars. Just over three in four people ages 20 to 24 in 2014 possessed a driver’s license, according to […]

  • December 16th, 2015

WASHINGTON – New data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that U.S. driving reached 273.5 billion miles in October 2015, the highest of any October on record, and more than 2.63 trillion miles so far this year. The new data, published in FHWA’s latest “Traffic Volume Trends” […]

  • October 20th, 2015

Richard Florida America is famously divided along many lines: red and blue states, high-income and low-income areas, educated and uneducated cities—the list goes on. But, startlingly, America’s political and economic divide extends to fatality rates as well, and specifically to where people are killed in their cars.

  • September 12th, 2015

DOT HS 812 180 State systems that integrate data by linking police crash reports to medical records provide important information that can be used to better understand motor vehicle crash injuries. The objective of this study was to better understand the facilitators and barriers to successful data linkage systems. Data were collected by questionnaire, focus […]