Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Arkansas: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Arkansas: 2000
| Federal-aid urbanized area1 | Total roadway miles | Total DVMT (thousands) | Estimated population (thousands) | Net land area (square miles) | Persons per square mile | Miles of roadway per thousand persons | Total DVMT per capita | Total estimated freeway lane miles2 | Average daily traffic per freeway lane mile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memphis, TN-AR-MS | 3,369 | 22,724 | 919 | 420 | 2,188 | 3.7 | 24.7 | 505 | 13,636 |
| Little Rock-North Little Rock | 2,068 | 9,227 | 325 | 252 | 1,290 | 6.4 | 28.4 | 398 | 11,987 |
| Fort Smith, AR-OK | 821 | 2,449 | 165 | 93 | 1,774 | 5.0 | 14.8 | 81 | 8,595 |
| Fayetteville-Springdale | 730 | 2,334 | 107 | 81 | 1,321 | 6.8 | 21.8 | 79 | 8,512 |
| Texarkana, AR-TX | 746 | 2,050 | 64 | 59 | 1,085 | 11.7 | 32.0 | 99 | 6,654 |
| Pine Bluff | 611 | 1,266 | 57 | 50 | 1,140 | 10.7 | 22.2 | 97 | 4,317 |
1 A "federal-aid urbanized area" is an area with 50,000 or more persons that, at a minimum, encompasses the land area delineated as the urbanized area by the U.S. Census Bureau. Areas are ranked by population. 2 Lane miles estimated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
KEY: DVMT = daily vehicle-miles of travel.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics, 2000, Washington, DC: 2001, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/ohimstat.htm as of Dec. 6, 2001.