OK, for partially mercenary reasons, I'm, going to post a bunch of links below. Why? Because the outfit I work for has generated much of the discussion about both reduced VMT and whether the US and state governments are ever going to understand there is a new reality. USPIRG and the Frontier Group are the other players that have been beating this drum. Almost every article or chart will link back to one of us. We share info, so I'm not going to be upset if one of the other gets the credit, but we have a ton of good info on our site. You can even search VMT and find news articles, resources, and papers we've written.
But to first answer Tim's question about the economy and VMT. Here's a StreetsBlog article that looks at states with high and low unemployment and finds no correlation with reductions in VMT: http://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/08/29/more-evidence-that-unemployment-doesnt-explain-the-decline-in-driving/ And a blog about the supposed relationship between GDP and VMT: http://eighteenthelephant.wordpress.com/tag/andrew-gelman/ If people are interested in seeing why VMT is going down, or whether it's likely to go back up, you can read the white paper by new-hire at SSTI (well, as of August 2013), Chris McCahill: VMT Inflection Point: Factors Affecting 21st Century Travel<http://www.ssti.us/2013/09/vmt-inflection-point-factors-affecting-21st-century-travel-ssti-2013/> http://www.ssti.us/2013/09/vmt-inflection-point-factors-affecting-21st-century-travel-ssti-2013/ Robbie Webber Transportation Policy Analyst State Smart Transportation Initiative www.ssti.us 608-263-9984 (o) [email protected] On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:53 PM, tim wong <[email protected]> wrote: > In fact, there's a chart which I can't find at the moment, which tracks > VMTs vs. economic conditions in each state. It showed that some of the > states showing the most driving were also those with the worst economies. > I remember Nevada as one of those states. > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Interesting. Note that the peak was in June, 2005, so the decline in VMT >> is not solely the result of the economic crash in 2008. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"tim wong" <[email protected]> >> *To: *"BikiesSubmissions" <[email protected]> >> *Sent: *Saturday, March 1, 2014 2:29:01 AM >> *Subject: *[Bikies] Fwd: We're Driving Less, So Should We Stop >> Building New Roads? >> >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> >> >> a couple of cool charts in here >> >> >> http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/02/were-driving-less-so-should-we-stop-building-new-roads/8507/ >> >> -- >> >> >> -- >> "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, >> then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their >> children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you >> and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these >> people?'" >> >> --Daniel Quinn >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >> >> > > > -- > "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, > then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their > children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you > and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these > people?'" > > --Daniel Quinn > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > >
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