Relationship between distance driven and economic activity: 1946-2017
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 15, 2019
For each year from 1946 through 2017, distance driven by all vehicles was obtained from the U.S. Department of Transportation , while GDP in chained 2012 dollars came from the U.S. Thereafter, this measure increased until plateauing from the early 1970s through the early 1990s, and then decreased through 2017. from 2000 to 2017.
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