FHWA: Motorists traveled 3.6 billion miles less this Sept. than in 2011

September 2012 Traffic Volume Trends

  • Travel on all roads and streets changed by -1.5% (-3.6 billion vehicle miles) for September 2012 as compared with September 2011.
  • Travel for the month is estimated to be 237.1 billion vehicle miles.
  • Cumulative Travel for 2012 changed by 0.6% (14.2 billion vehicle miles).
  • Cumulative estimate for the year is 2,213.4 billion vehicle miles of travel.
Office of Highway Policy Information

Travel Monitoring and Traffic Volume

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/travel_monitoring/12septvt/index.cfm