ANNUAL VEHICLE DISTANCE TRAVELED IN MILES AND RELATED DATA - 2009 1/BY HIGHWAY CATEGORY AND VEHICLE TYPEPublished: April 2011Table VM-1SUBTOTALSSINGLE-UNIT ALLYEAR ITEM LIGHT DUTY LIGHT DUTY ALL 2-AXLE 6-TIRE MOTORVEHICLES MOTOR- BUSES VEHICLES SINGLE-UNIT COMBINATION LIGHT DUTY OR MORE AND VEHICLESSHORT WB 2/ CYCLES LONG WB 2/ TRUCKS 3/ TRUCKS VEHICLES /2 COMBINATIONTRUCKSMotor-Vehicle Travel:(millions of vehicle-miles)2009 Interstate Rural 139,6211,4801,60142,00210,99146,178181,622 57,169 241,8732009 Other Arterial Rural 229,3673,2952,06389,19419,36429,185318,561 48,549 372,4682009 Other Rural226,498 3,502 2,506 97,887 19,173 16,322324,384 35,494 365,8862009 All Rural 595,485 8,277 6,170 229,082 49,528 91,684 824,567 141,212 980,2272009 Interstate Urban334,765 2,323 2,170 87,116 15,649 32,940421,881 48,589 474,9632009 Other Urban1,083,185 10,201 6,017 300,705 54,986 43,2181,383,890 98,204 1,498,3112009 All Urban 1,417,950 12,523 8,187 387,821 70,635 76,158 1,805,771 146,793 1,973,2742009 Total Rural and Urban 5/ 2,013,436 20,800 14,358 616,903 120,163 167,842 2,630,338 288,005 2,953,5012009 Number of motor vehicles 193,979,6547,929,724841,99340,488,0258,356,0972,617,118234,467,679 10,973,214 254,212,610registered 2/2009 Average miles traveled 10,380 2,623 17,052 15,237 14,380 64,132 11,218 26,246 11,618per vehicle2009 Person-miles of travel 4/ 2,797,438 22,404 304,386 824,151 120,163 167,842 3,621,589 288,0054,236,384(millions)2009 Fuel consumed 85,560,236 474,909 1,868,792 35,763,797 16,342,208 28,130,088 121,324,034 44,472,296168,140,031(thousand gallons)2009 Average fuel consumption per 441 60 2,219 883 1,956 10,748 517 4,053661vehicle (gallons)2009 Average miles traveled per 23.8 43.2 7.2 17.4 7.4 6.0 21.7 6.517.6gallon of fuel consumed1/ The FHWA estimates national trends by using State reported Highway Performance and Monitoring System (HPMS) data, fuel consumption data (MF-21 and MF-27), vehicle registration data (MV-1, MV-9, andMV-10), other data such as the R. L. Polk vehicle data, and a host of modeling techniques. Starting with the 2009 VM-1, an enhanced methodology is used to provide timely indictors on both travel and travelbehavior changes.2/ Light Duty Vehicles Short WB - passenger cars, light trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles with a wheelbase (WB) equal toor less than 121 inches. Light Duty Vehicles Long WB - large passenger cars, vans,pickup trucks, and sport/utility vehicles with wheelbases (WB) larger than 121 inches. All Light Duty Vehicles - passenger cars, light trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles regardless of wheelbase.3/ Single-Unit - single frame trucks that have 2-Axles and at least 6 tires or a gross vehicle weight rating exceeding 10,000 lbs.4/ Vehicle occupancy is estimated by the FHWA from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS); For single unit truck and heavy trucks, 1 motor vehicle miles travelled = 1 person-miles traveled.5/ VMT data are based on the latest HPMS data available; it may not match previous published results.The data now on the website for 2000-2006 were estimated using a methodology developed in the late 1990s. FHWA recently developed a new methodology and used it for this year’s Highway Statistics. Thismethodology takes advantage of additional and improved information available beginning in 2007 when states were first requiredto report motorcycle data – before that time, the reporting was not mandatoryand the data were missing for a few states. Also, the new methodology does not rely on data from the national vehicle inventoryand use survey which provided critical data for the original methodology but wasnot collected in 2007 as planned.In April 2011, FHWA recalculated the 2000-2008 data along with the 2009 data to estimate trends. However, after further reviewand consideration, the agency determined that it is more reliable to retain theoriginal 2000-2006 estimates because the information available for those years does not fully meet the requirements of the newmethodology. Thus, the original 2000-2006 estimates are now used, whereas the2007-2009 data are still based on the new methodology.