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Highway and Road

Legacy ID
1516

Transportation-Related Occupational Fatalities

a Based on the 1992 Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Injury and Illness Classification Manual.

b Numbers may not add to totals because transportation categories may include subcategories not shown separately.

c Includes collisions between vehicles/mobile equipment moving in the same or opposite directions, such as in an intersection; between moving and standing vehicles/mobile equipment at the side of a roadway; or a vehicle striking a stationary object. Also includes noncollisions, e.g., jack-knifed or overturned vehicle/...

Roadway Vehicle-Kilometers Traveled (VKT) and VKT per Lane-Kilometers by Functional Class

a Includes the 50 States and the District of Columbia.

bUrban other arterial includes other freeways and expressways, other principal arterial, and minor arterial. Rural other arterial includes other principal arterial and minor arterial prior to 2009, and includes other freeways and expressways, other principal arterial and minor arterial for 2009.

cCollector is the sum of major and minor collectors. 

U.S. Vehicle-Kilometers

KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

a All operations other than those operating under 14 CFR 121 and 14 CFR 135. Data for 1996 are estimated using new information on nonrespondents and are not comparable to earlier years. Mileage in source is multiplied by 1.151 to convert to nautical-miles for 1985-1997.

b 1960-2006 data are for Passenger Cars and Other 2-axle, 4-tire vehicles, respectively. Data for 1960-2006 are not comparable to data for 2007-15. 

c U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA),...

Estimated U.S. Roadway Lane-Kilometers by Functional System

a Includes the 50 States and the District of Columbia.

bUrban other arterial includes other freeways and expressways, other principal arterial, and minor arterial. Rural other arterial includes other principal arterial and minor arterial prior to 2009 and other freeways and expressways, other principal arterial and minor arterial for 2009 and later.

cCollector is the sum of major and minor collectors. 

Kilometers of Public Roads and Streets in the United States by Type of Surface

KEY:  N = data does not exist.

a 1960-95 data includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia; 1996-2008 data includes the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico; 2011-16 data includes the 50 states and the District of Columbia; 2017-18 data includes the 50 states, Puerto Rico (data may be incomplete), and the District of Columbia.

b  Paved mileage includes the following categories: low type (an earth, gravel, or stone roadway that has a bituminous surface course less than 1" thick); intermediate type (a mixed...

System Kilometers Within the United States

KEY:  N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

a All public road and street mileage in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. For years prior to 1980, some miles of nonpublic roadways are included. No consistent data on private road mileage are available. Beginning in 1998, approximately 43,000 miles of Bureau of Land Management Roads are excluded. 2010 Missouri and Wyoming's data are 2009.

b Data represent miles of road owned (aggregate length of road, excluding yard tracks, sidings, and parallel lines...