Recent Streetsblog USA posts about VMT

2013: Another Year of Falling Per-Capita Driving in U.S.

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This post was originally published on the blog of the Frontier Group, where the author is a senior policy analyst. The number of miles driven in the United States continues to stagnate, even amidst economic recovery, according to just-released figures from the Federal Highway Administration. According to the agency’s December 2013 Traffic Volume Trends report, […]

Twin Cities Region Grows While Car Use Shrinks

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Residents of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Region are letting their feet off the gas. According to the Twin Cities’ Metropolitan Council’s decennial travel behavior survey [PDF], vehicle trips in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region dropped 18 percent between 2000 and 2010. People who reside in the area are making almost 1.5 million fewer car trips a day […]

Beyond “Level of Service” — New Methods for Evaluating Streets

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Streetsblog reported earlier this month that transportation agencies are increasingly aware of the insidious consequences of using “Level of Service” as the primary metric for their projects. Because Level of Service only rewards the movement of motor vehicles, it promotes dangerous, high-speed streets and sprawling land use. The question remains: How should streets and development projects […]