New estimates released last Friday by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that Americans drove 2.969 trillion miles between May 2013 and May 2014, levels not seen since 2008. According to FHWA’s “Traffic Volume Trends” report, a monthly estimate of American driving, traffic in May 2014 was at the highest level for any May since 2007, and the second-highest of any May since data collection began in 1936. In the first five months of this year, U.S. driving stands at 1.2 trillion miles, or the largest since 2008, and more than 264 billion miles in May alone. For the May 2014 data, and all previous monthly reports, visit http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/tvt.cfm.
New estimates released last Friday by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) show that Americans drove 2.969 trillion miles between May 2013 and May 2014, levels not seen since 2008. According to FHWA’s “Traffic Volume Trends” report, a monthly estimate of American driving, traffic in May 2014 was at the highest level for any May since … Continued
