Speeding In Rural Areas.

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Speed limits
  • Speed zones
  • Distributions (Statistics)
  • Fatalities
  • Highway classification
  • Rural areas
  • Speeding
  • Urban areas
  • Vehicle miles of travel
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Americans travel more on urban roads than on rural roads 1,592,057 million vehicle miles (M VMT) are driven annually in urban areas, compared with 1,033,310 M VMT in rural areas. However, in 1998, 61% of all U.S. motor vehicle fatalities and 65% of all speeding-related fatalities occurred on rural roads. Two out of every 3 speeding-related fatalities occur in rural areas. Presented here are figures showing the distributions of speeding-related fatalities by road class for rural versus urban areas and graphs indicating speeding-related fatality rates by highway class for rural areas versus urban areas and nonspeeding-related fatality rates by highway class for rural areas versus urban areas. The figures and graphs show 1998 statistics.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/14135/dot_14135_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 49.11 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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