Concepts

Vehicle Miles Traveled

Also Known As VMT

Road Concept

Citation Formats

General Reference

Transport Atlas. "Vehicle Miles Traveled." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-transport.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/vehicle-miles-traveled.

APA Style

Transport Atlas. (n.d.). Vehicle Miles Traveled. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-transport.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/vehicle-miles-traveled

BibTeX

@misc{transportatlas-vehicle-miles-traveled,
  author = {Transport Atlas},
  title = {Vehicle Miles Traveled},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-transport.interactiveatlas.org/concepts/vehicle-miles-traveled},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

A measure of road traffic flow found by multiplying the number of vehicles on a road or network by the average length of their trips. It is used both to size infrastructure demand and, divided into fatality counts, to compare road safety across places and over time independent of population growth.

Facts

Core Concern

Total distance driven on a road network, used to size demand and normalize safety statistics 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Part Of

Road Transport

Sources

1. Wikipedia: Vehicle Miles Traveled

WikipediaFatalities by VMT

Quote, Fatalities by VMT

Fatalities by VMT (vehicle miles traveled) is a unit for assessing road traffic fatalities. This metric is computed by dividing the fatalities by the estimated VMT.

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