Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in West Virginia: 2000
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Table 5-5: Highway, Demographic, and Geographic Characteristics of Urbanized Areas in West Virginia: 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 person | Total DVMT per capita | Total estimated freeway lane miles2 | Average daily traffic per freeway lane mile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH | 1,038 | 3,944 | 174 | 104 | 1,673 | 6.0 | 23 | 172 | 6,642 |
| Charleston | 844 | 4,819 | 167 | 125 | 1,336 | 5.1 | 29 | 172 | 10,717 |
| Steubenville-Weirton, OH-WV-PA | 482 | U | 101 | 80 | 1,263 | 4.8 | U | 138 | 4,621 |
| Hagerstown, MD-WV-PA | 411 | 1,954 | 79 | 50 | 1,580 | 5.2 | 25 | 67 | 11,539 |
| Cumberland, MD-WV | 392 | U | 69 | 79 | 873 | 5.7 | U | 42 | 7,169 |
| Parkersburg, WV-OH | 291 | 1,176 | 60 | 42 | 1,429 | 4.9 | 20 | 3 | 7,125 |
| Wheeling, WV-OH | 481 | U | 59 | 55 | 1,073 | 8.1 | U | 107 | 6,476 |
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. 2Lane miles estimated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
KEY: DVMT = daily vehicle-miles of travel; U = data are unavailable.
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.