FHWA Highway Statistics — Vehicle Miles Traveled (VM-1)

Federal Highway Administration

Annual reportFederal-TXPublic domainUpdated 2023
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https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2023/vm1.cfm

FHWA's vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT) tables, broken out by state and road type. This is exposure data — the denominator that turns raw counts into meaningful rates. A death toll means little without the miles driven behind it; VMT lets analysts express fatalities per 100 million miles traveled rather than as raw totals.

A tip: change the year in the URL to pull other years.

Best for: normalizing crash and fatality figures into rates, and any comparison that has to account for how much driving actually happens.