Annual Vehicle Distance Traveled and Fuel Use by Highway Category, 2000-2024

The Department of Transportation's VM-1 table provides annual statistics on vehicle distance traveled in miles. The dataset includes metrics for different highway categories and vehicle types, covering person miles, registered vehicle counts, and fuel consumption from 2000 to 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) per registered vehicle across different highway categories over the 25-year period.
• Model the relationship between gallons of fuel use per vehicle and VMT to estimate transportation energy efficiency.
• Compare person miles of travel with total VMT by vehicle type to study passenger load factors.
• Forecast future fuel use based on historical gallons of fuel per vehicle miles and registered vehicle counts.

Strengths

• Provides a 25-year time series from 2000 to 2024 for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes multiple related metrics such as VMT, fuel use, and registered vehicles, enabling multi-faceted studies.
• Published by the authoritative Department of Transportation, ensuring official data provenance.

Limitations

• Data from 2010 onward includes revised figures from the previous year, which may complicate direct year-to-year comparisons for those periods.
• The specific number of data rows and columns is unknown, making it difficult to assess the dataset's granularity and scale prior to download.
• Lacks explicit geographic breakdown, limiting analysis to national-level trends.

Provenance

Source

Department of Transportation

Time Range

2000 to 2024

Freshness

Updated as of February 2026, with data through 2024.