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THE IMPORTANCE OF MOTOR VEHICLE TRANSPORTATION - PART 1

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Today in the United States. Canada. Europe, and other developed areas of the world, vehicles rolling over highways and streets are the principal means for transporting persons and goods. In the United States some 154 million motor vehicles,2 including 33 million trucks and buses, travel 1.5 trillion miles an­nually on some 3.9 million miles of roads and streets. There is a motor vehicle to reach 1.5 persons, and a passenger car for every two: enough to transport the entire population at once. Eighty-one percent of U.S. households own at least one automobile. Licensed drivers total 143 million, or 64% of the population. Some 97% of local trips (less than 30 miles) and 86% of longer trips are made by auto mobile.

Private motor transportation consumes 14% of the expenditures of individu­als. To keep highway transport moving takes 24% of the nation s steel, 65% ot its rubber, 55% of its petroleum, and vast amounts of many other products. In 1979, taxed gasoline consumption of about 108 billion gal, or 95% of all uses, was 500 gal for each man, woman, and child. Trucks and buses took 14 billion gal of diesel fuel, or 22% of total consumption. Assuring a continuing supply of fuel is a critical issue for the years ahead.

The comparisons of overall ton miles for freight movements do not tell the whole story, since truck transportation predominates where goods have high value, wherein quick delivery is important, or where haul distances are short. For example, of the total tonnage of nrianutactured goods transported less than 50 mi; about 69% goes by highway, 17% by rail, 13% by Water, and 1 % by postal or parcel delivery services.
Urban areas likewise rely heavily on motor vehicle transportation. Country­wide, 95% of all urban passenger miles are by user-operated automobile,' 3% by motor bus, and 2% on subways or elevated of surface railways. Not only do these figures indicate the predominant role of the private automobile in urban movements, but they also show that rubber-tire vehicles traveling on pavement carry a major share of public transit. 

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