Table 4-9: Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Travel

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
Vehicles registered (thousands)^a	73,858	90,358	111,242	137,913	161,490	177,133	193,057	192,314	194,427	198,041	201,802	205,427	210,441	211,580	215,496	220,461	225,821	235,331	234,624	236,760	243,023
Vehicle-miles traveled (millions)	718,762	887,812	1,109,724	1,327,664	1,527,295	1,774,826	2,144,362	2,172,050	2,247,151	2,296,378	2,357,588	2,422,696	2,485,848	2,561,695	2,631,522	2,691,056	2,746,925	2,797,287	2,855,508	(R) 2,890,450	2,962,513
Fuel consumed (million gallons)	57,880	71,104	92,329	108,984	114,960	121,301	130,755	128,563	132,888	137,262	140,839	143,834	147,365	150,386	155,379	161,411	162,554	163,478	168,682	(R) 170,069	173,750
Average miles traveled per vehicle (thousands)	9.7	9.8	10.0	9.6	9.5	10.0	11.1	11.3	11.6	11.6	11.7	11.8	11.8	12.1	12.2	12.2	12.2	11.9	12.2	(R) 12.2	12.2
Average miles traveled per gallon	12.4	12.5	12.0	12.2	13.3	14.6	16.4	16.9	16.9	16.7	16.7	16.8	16.9	17.0	16.9	16.7	16.9	17.1	16.9	(R) 17.0	17.1
Average fuel consumed per vehicle (gallons)	784	787	830	790	712	685	677	669	683	693	698	700	700	711	721	732	720	695	719	(R) 718	715

KEY: R = revised.

^a Includes personal passenger vehicles, buses, and trucks.

NOTE

See tables 4-11, 4-12, 4-13, 4-14, and 4-15 for individual highway vehicles.

SOURCES

1960-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A.

1995-2004: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-1.

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Table 4-9: Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Travel

Table 4-9: Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption and Travel