Tag: driving miles

Is Urbanism Slowing the Rise of Car Travel?

Mar 1, 2012

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mwkruse

in Environment, History, Sociology, Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Economic

The Atlantic Cities: Is Urbanism Slowing the Rise of Car Travel? Early last week the State Smart Transportation Initiative, a sustainable transport program funded by the Department of Transportation, released some charts on the continued decline of vehicle-miles traveled in the United States. Overall VMT dropped 1.2 percent in 2011 from the previous year, reaching its…
Obesity and Driving

Jun 15, 2011

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mwkruse

in Health and Medicine, Technology (Transportation & Distribution), Trends: Social

Economist: Obesity and driving AMERICANS are getting fatter: obesity rates have risen 74% in the past 15 years to nearly 28% of the adult population. And they are driving more: the number of miles driven by each licensed driver (VMT/LD), excluding commercial vehicles, increased by an average of 0.6% a year between 1988 and 2008.…