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Distance driven per person is still down from its maximum in 2004

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The focus here is on distance driven per person as opposed to total distance driven (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. The main findings concerning distance driven per person (summarized in the table below) are as follows: An increase of 40.9% from 1984 to 2004 (from 6,612 miles to 9,314 miles).

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Distance driven in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2004?

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The focus here is on distance driven per person and per household, as opposed to the absolute distance driven (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. The chart below shows the distance-driven rates per person and per household. from 1984 to 2004 (from 6,612 miles to 9,314 miles), then decreased by 9.1%

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Study finds rates of LDV fuel consumption in US peaked in 2004; indications of peak motorization

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Based on the present data, his best estimates of the current annual fuel-consumption rates are: 398 gallons (1,507 liters) per person, 585 gallons (2,214 liters) per licensed driver, 1,033 gallons (3,910 liters) per household, and 530 gallons (2,006 liters) per registered vehicle. Fuel consumed per person. 2003 to 2004. -13%

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Number of vehicles in the United States: Did we reach the peak in 2006?

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Distance driven per person reached a maximum in 2004. While this rate has been on a rebound since 2013, the 2017 rate is still down from 2004 by 5.2%. The focus is on vehicles per person, as opposed to the absolute number (which depends, in part, on the continuously increasing size of the U.S. population).

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Great Britain and the United States show the same pattern of recent changes in vehicle distance traveled

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Vehicle distance traveled per person in Great Britain is currently about one-half of the distance in the United States. I documented recent changes in distance traveled per person for cars and light trucks in the United States in a study published last month.). decrease from the peak in 2004 to 2013. Because British and U.S.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). A 2020 U.S.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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