Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in New York: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in New York: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York, NY-Northeastern New Jersey | 37,623 | 263,905 | 17,089 | 3,962 | 4,313 | 2.2 | 15.4 | 6,601 | 15,346 |
| Buffalo-Niagara Falls | 3,985 | 21,448 | 1,112 | 564 | 1,972 | 3.6 | 19.3 | 636 | 10,014 |
| Rochester | 2,611 | 15,304 | 652 | 335 | 1,946 | 4.0 | 23.5 | 498 | 11,066 |
| Albany-Schenectady-Troy | 2,663 | 13,955 | 519 | 365 | 1,422 | 5.1 | 26.9 | 550 | 10,005 |
| Syracuse | 1,801 | 9,426 | 386 | 233 | 1,657 | 4.7 | 24.4 | 450 | 7,938 |
| Stamford, CT-NY | 719 | 4,573 | 201 | 82 | 2,451 | 3.6 | 22.8 | 119 | 19,945 |
| Utica-Rome | 1,096 | 4,600 | 164 | 206 | 796 | 6.7 | 28.1 | 277 | 4,848 |
| Danbury, CT-NY | 869 | 4,110 | 157 | 136 | 1,154 | 5.5 | 26.2 | 103 | 14,925 |
| Poughkeepsie | 850 | 4,291 | 148 | 175 | 846 | 5.7 | 29.0 | 126 | 8,991 |
| Binghamton | 919 | 4,873 | 133 | 163 | 816 | 6.9 | 36.6 | 203 | 7,220 |
| Glens Falls | 446 | 1,678 | 58 | 63 | 921 | 7.7 | 28.9 | 67 | 6,697 |
| Elmira | 403 | 1,503 | 56 | 51 | 1,098 | 7.2 | 26.8 | 69 | 6,179 |
| Newburgh | 502 | 2,963 | 56 | 135 | 415 | 9.0 | 52.9 | 109 | 10,557 |
| Ithaca | 199 | 745 | 52 | 32 | 1,625 | 3.8 | 14.3 | 20 | 6,948 |
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.