Recent Streetsblog USA posts about VMT

Study: App Taxis Can More than Double VMTs

By Kea Wilson | Jan 23, 2021 | No Comments

The average Uber or Lyft customer is responsible for adding more than twice as many car miles to his city's roads as he was before he started using app-taxis to get around.

Study: Car Traffic Might Stay Low Post-Vaccine

By Kea Wilson | Aug 3, 2020 | No Comments

But if we don't act fast, they'll come back.

Americans Want Drivers Who Drive More to Pay More

By Kea Wilson | Jul 20, 2020 | No Comments

People are starting to get behind a VMT tax. (Um, so what's a vehicle miles traveled tax?)

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New CA Law Finally Rejects 'Vehicle Delay' Myth

By Melanie Curry | Jun 30, 2020 | No Comments

And Caltrans will host a webinar tomorrow, open to all, to discuss "Rethinking How We Build So Californians Can Drive Less."

The map represents the decrease in vehicle miles traveled, comparing March 27 to a similar day two months earlier. Data: StreetLight

DATA DUMP: Total Driving is Down in All Major U.S. Cities

By Gersh Kuntzman | Apr 6, 2020 | No Comments

Americans are indeed driving less — up to 94 percent less in some places — as the global COVID-19 pandemic keeps people at home, but rural segments of the country are not doing their share to flatten the curve.

Cutting emissions standards may save Americans money at the dealership, but it'll cost them at the pump — and in a lot of other ways, too. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Here's Why Trump's Fuel Standards Rollback is Terrible

By Kea Wilson | Apr 2, 2020 | No Comments

Here's the only story you need on why the Trump administration is wrong to gut an Obama-era rule to make cars cleaner and more efficient.

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