Tag: vehicle miles traveled

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…