Table 1-40 Redux

Last July 14, I devoted an entire Antiplanner policy brief to a review of a single table in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ publication, National Transportation Statistics, table 1-40, passenger-miles by mode. My main concerns were that the table overestimated bus miles and failed to include walking and cycling miles.

Just four weeks later, on August 11, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics issued an update to table 1-40. The update reduces the number of bus passenger-miles (though not by as much as I estimated) and added walking and cycling miles.

Walking and cycling numbers are based on the National Household Travel Survey, which is repeated every five to eight years. As a result, table 1-40 only includes numbers for the years of that survey. Fortunately, the most recent survey was in 2017, so the numbers should be pretty comparable with the latest numbers for other modes, which are for 2018.
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The revised table shows that Americans walk more miles each year (33.7 billion) than they ride rail transit (32.3 billion in 2018). Americans bicycle more miles each year (8.5 billion) than they ride Amtrak (6.4 billion). Walking doesn’t include walking around your house or yard and cycling doesn’t include children riding around the block; instead, these numbers include trips to destinations such as work, school, or stores.

The revised table reduces bus miles from 388 billion to 368 billion. Counting motor coaches (including intercity buses), transit buses, and school buses, I could only account for about 131 billion passenger-miles. Airport buses and hotel shuttles might add to this, but not 237 billion miles. I don’t know how the Department of Transportation did its calculations, but at least it reduced the number.

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The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

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