Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Maine: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in Maine: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portland | 634 | 3,343 | 129 | 93 | 1,387 | 4.9 | 25.9 | 106 | 9,931 |
| Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester, NH-ME | 663 | 3,197 | 116 | 203 | 571 | 5.7 | 27.6 | 124 | 8,984 |
| Lewiston-Auburn | 497 | 1,406 | 71 | 123 | 577 | 7.0 | 19.8 | 43 | 3,858 |
| Bangor | 364 | 1,486 | 61 | 12 | 5,083 | 6.0 | 24.4 | 55 | 6,692 |
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.