The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released its annual compilation of statistical data on motor fuel, motor vehicles, driver licensing, highway-user taxation, and state and local government highway finance. The report has been produced each year since 1945. According to a U.S. Department of Transportation press release, Americans drove nearly three trillion miles on United States highways last year. This figure – 2,989,807,000,000 vehicle miles traveled – represents a 27.4 billion mile increase over travel in 2004 and nearly 25 percent more than in 1995. This annual report containing analyzed statistical data on motor fuel, motor vehicles, drivers licensing, highway-user taxation, state and local highway finance, highway mileage, federal-aid for highways, as well as information on Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey, and selected data for international data. (Author/publisher) See also http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/hsspubs.htm
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