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To: Paul Kern who wrote (102771)	6/13/2008 10:12:16 AM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 206089

If true, the actual miles driven is down bigger than the record drop from March 08, at a price double last year, a 10% decline in charges, fortells much fewer miles being driven. wondering what that 10% represents in dollars? using this data could provide meaningful missing information absent the transportation departments lagging performance for data reporting. from a recent post made at DA Chief thread. FHWA 11-08 Friday, May 23, 2008 Contact: Doug Hecox Tel.: (202) 366-0660 Americans Driving At Historic Lows Eleven Billion Fewer Vehicle Miles Traveled in March 2008 Over Previous March WASHINGTON -- Americans drove less in March 2008, continuing a trend that began last November, according to estimates released today from the Federal Highway Administration. “That Americans are driving less underscores the challenges facing the Highway Trust Fund and its reliance on the federal gasoline excise tax,” said Acting Federal Highway Administrator Jim Ray. The FHWA’s “Traffic Volume Trends” report, produced monthly since 1942, shows that estimated vehicle miles traveled (VMT) on all U.S. public roads for March 2008 fell 4.3 percent as compared with March 2007 travel. This is the first time estimated March travel on public roads fell since 1979. At 11 billion miles less in March 2008 than in the previous March, this is the sharpest yearly drop for any month in FHWA history. Though February 2008 showed a modest 1 billion mile increase over February 2007, cumulative VMT has fallen by 17.3 billion miles since November 2006. Total VMT in the United States for 2006, the most recent year for which such data are available, topped 3 trillion miles. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimated that greenhouse gas emissions fell by an estimated 9 million metric tons for the first quarter of 2008. The estimated data show that VMT on all U.S. public roads have dropped since 2006. The FHWA’s Traffic Monitoring Analysis System (TMAS) computes VMT for all types of motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, buses and trucks) on the nation’s public roads. These data are collected through over 4,000 automatic traffic recorders operated round-the-clock by state highway agencies. More comprehensive data are published in the FHWA’s “Highway Statistics” at the end of each year transtats.bts.gov To review the FHWA’s “Traffic Volume Trends” reports, visit fhwa.dot.gov. For “Highway Statistics 2006,” visit fhwa.dot.gov.