Vital Signs: Daily Miles Traveled - by metro area (per-capita)
data.bayareametro.gov | Last Updated 6 Jul 2018VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR Daily Miles Traveled (T15) FULL MEASURE NAME Per-capita vehicle miles traveled LAST UPDATED July 2017 DESCRIPTION Daily miles traveled, commonly referred to as vehicle miles traveled (VMT), reflects the total and per-person number of miles traveled in personal vehicles on a typical weekday. The dataset includes metropolitan area, regional and county tables for per-capita vehicle miles traveled. DATA SOURCE Federal Highway Administration: Highway Statistics Series 2015 Table HM-71; limited to urbanized areas https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm U.S. Census Bureau: Summary File 1 2010 http://factfinder2.census.gov CONTACT INFORMATION vitalsigns.info@mtc.ca.gov METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator) "Vehicle miles traveled reflects the mileage accrued within the county and not necessarily the residents of that county; even though most trips are due to local residents, additional VMT can be accrued by through-trips. City data was thus discarded due to this limitation and the analysis only examine county and regional data, where through-trips are generally less common. The metropolitan area comparison was performed by summing all of the urbanized areas within each metropolitan area (9-nine region for the San Francisco Bay Area and the primary MSA for all others). For the metro analysis, no VMT data is available outside of other urbanized areas; it is only available for intraregional analysis purposes. VMT per capita is calculated by dividing VMT by an estimate of the traveling population. The traveling population does not include people living in institutionalized facilities, which are defined by the Census. Because institutionalized population is not estimated each year, the proportion of people living in institutionalized facilities from the 2010 Census was applied to the total population estimates for all years."
This dataset has the following 8 columns:
Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
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Metro | metro | text | Area in which vehicle-miles are traveled | Dallas Atlanta Washington Los Angeles Bay Area view top 100 |
Year | year | number | 2015 view top 100 | |
VMT | vmt | number | 116349000 133538000 132643000 153865000 153703000 view top 100 | |
Population | population | number | 12756515 5222676 8701499 4919036 4500007 view top 100 | |
Population_adj | population_adj | number | Adjusted population (subtracting out institutionalized population) | 17631198 12663722 3959010 4120738 8627597 view top 100 |
VMTpc | vmtpc | number | Daily vehicle miles traveled (per-capita) | 27.2 23.7 16.6 21 34.5 view top 100 |
Source1 | source1 | text | FHWA HPMS view top 100 | |
Source2 | source2 | text | Census_2010 view top 100 |