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Wyoming leads in vehicle miles traveled per person

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The latest annual data from the Federal Highway Administration show that in 2018 the maximum (348,796 million miles in California) was 94.5 Because total VMT depends, in part, on the size of the population, of interest in this study was the variation among the states in vehicle miles traveled per person (VMT per person).

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Distance driven per person is still down from its maximum in 2004

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The focus here is on distance driven per person as opposed to total distance driven (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. The period covered is 1984 through 2018. The main findings concerning distance driven per person (summarized in the table below) are as follows: An increase of 40.9%

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Number of vehicles per person is still down from its maximum in 2006

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This analysis adds new calculations for 2018. The focus in this series is on vehicles per person, as opposed to total number of vehicles (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. The main findings (summarized in the table below) are as follows: Vehicles per person increased by 18.2% population).

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Younger persons are still less likely to have a driver’s license than in the 1980s

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Since 2011 , I have periodically examined changes in the proportion of persons with a driver’s license as a function of age. The results showed that between 1983 and 2014 there was a substantial decrease in the licensing of younger persons, with an increase in the licensing of older persons. for those 50 to 54.

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UC Davis researcher finds ride-hailing EVs offer triple the emissions benefits of a personally owned EV

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Replacing a gasoline-powered ride-hailing vehicle with an electric vehicle can deliver three times the carbon benefits of a personally owned electric vehicle, according to a study by a University of California, Davis, researcher of Uber and Lyft data. The paper is published in the journal Nature Energy. Nat Energy (2020).

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NACTO: 84M shared bike and scooter trips in US in 2018

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million in 2018. Shared scooter trips were added to the NACTO study in 2018. million shared scooter trips in 2018, representing 46% of the 84 million shared micromobility trips taken last year. Data does not include private or closed campus systems such as those operating on university campuses. 2018, April 2019.

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Great Britain and the United States show the same pattern of recent changes in vehicle distance traveled

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Vehicle distance traveled per person in Great Britain is currently about one-half of the distance in the United States. The years examined were 1993 through 2018. I documented recent changes in distance traveled per person for cars and light trucks in the United States in a study published last month.). Because British and U.S.