Several states have acted in recent months to provide fuel-tax relief, some of which benefits trucking. House was referred to committee as well, but it also hasn’t moved. The bill there was sent to committee and hasn’t moved since. Senate Democrats in February introduced the Gas Tax Relief Act, which would pause the federal gasoline tax until Jan. Energy Information Administration (EIA), which tracks the fuel-price trends. Gasoline, while cheaper than diesel, is almost $1.58 more than a year ago, according to the U.S. government on March 7 reported the largest weekly diesel price spike ever-74.5 cents per gallon-and nationwide prices for trucking’s main fuel have remained historically high since ($5.571 per gallon on May 23), or more than $2.30 per gallon more than they were last year. 24, sending shock through oil and distillate markets that had already seen prices increase steadily since last year. Then Russia-a major energy exporter, mostly to Europe but a fraction to the United States-commenced its bloody invasion of Ukraine on Feb. See also: Diesel level for second straight week The Highway Trust Fund (HTF), which is filled by the federal diesel tax as well as the 18.4-cent-per-gallon levy on gasoline, usually funds these types of investments, but the pressure was off the HTF at the time. VMT is used to assist with future travel trend analysis by planners, budget analysts and engineers.Diesel and gasoline taxes have received fresh attention this spring as state capitals and the federal government have looked to provide relief-albeit temporary in the form of fuel-tax “holidays”-in an environment of historically high prices on the distillates that are used by trucking and consumers.īy last fall, attention had turned away from these taxes-the federal levy on diesel is 24.3 cents while states add on varying amounts that average 39 cents per gallon-after President Joe Biden signed into law the massive $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which promises to flow $110 billion alone to road, bridge, and tunnel repairs and improvements nationwide.VMT is a planning tool to help identify whether driving has increased or decreased.VMT summarizes travel from the previous year. Estimation methods can be found in Chapter 9, Section 40, Subject 2, of the WisDOT Transportation Planning Manual. To see how VMT is trending to date, go to the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Travel Monitoring website.ĭata prior to 2009 is available upon request. Contact Vehicle miles of travel by highway system VMT captures aggregate trends on a broad range of corridors. VMT estimates, while based on AADT estimates, include the distance traveled element and thus provide a measure of highway vehicle travel usage over a geographic area, such as a county, state, or highway system. Most traffic counts are reported in terms of annual average daily traffic (AADT) and represent an estimate of the number of vehicles traveling along a given point on a highway on an average day in the year. Vehicle miles of travel (VMT) is a measure of all the miles driven within a specified area and timeframe.
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