Vehicle Traffic Volumes Rise 1.2% in August 2012

Year-over-Year Change Monthly Miles Driven (blue line) and Year-over-Year Change 12 Month Rolling Average (red line)

• Travel on all roads and streets changed by 1.2% (3.0 billion vehicle miles) for August 2012 as compared with August 2011.

• Travel for the month is estimated to be 262.4 billion vehicle miles.
• Cumulative Travel for 2012 changed by 0.9% (17.8 billion vehicle miles).
• Cumulative estimate for the year is 1,976.4 billion vehicle miles of travel.
• Change in Traffic as compared to same month last year.

Year-over-Year Change Monthly Miles Driven (blue line) and Year-over-Year Change 12 Month Rolling Average (red line)

Although traffic volumes decreased in this period, they have become less bad in 2012.

source: DOL