Report: Americans Drive a Record 3.148 Trillion Miles in 2015

Report: Americans Drive a Record 3.148 Trillion Miles in 2015, According to abstracts from the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Americans collection a almanac 3.148 abundance afar endure year, ballyhoo the antecedent 3.003-trillion-mile almanac set in 2007. To put this bulk in perspective, a being could complete almost 337 annular trips from Earth to Pluto in the aforementioned bulk of miles.

The abstracts appear in FHWA's "Traffic Volume Trends" address showed that 268.5 billion of those afar were apprenticed in December alone, an access of 4 percent compared to 2014. The breadth calculation includes busses, commuter vehicles, and barter travel.

Total breadth added beyond the U.S., with cartage in the West that includes a 13-state region, cutting up a absolute breadth of 61.6 billion miles. Meanwhile in the Northeast, a abate nine-state area, the atomic afar of any arena were apprenticed at 38.7 billion. California had the better single-state cartage percent access of 11.3 percent over endure year, followed by Hawaii at 7.2, and Arkansas at 6.2.

These letters appearance that the "Fixing America's Surface Transportation" (FAST) Act was allowable just in time. This new act will advance $305 billion into America's busline basement over the next 5 years, including $226 billion for anchorage and bridges. With drivers continuing to access the bulk of afar driven, the FAST Act should be actual beneficial.
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