Daily vehicle miles of travel for Portland
See data on the daily vehicle miles of travel (DVMT) by residents of the Portland metropolitan area, 1990-2008.
The most recent data available is for 2008. The Portland metropolitan area has two different sets of data, depending on how the geographic area is defined.
Portland-Vancouver, Oregon-Washington data
The first set is designated by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as the Portland-Vancouver, Oregon-Washington, 'Urbanized Area (UZA 27)'. This includes the Federal-Aid Urbanized Areas of Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. The 1990-2008 data are from the FHWA, and from the ODOT and WDOT Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) programs in Salem, Oregon and Olympia, Washington, respectively. For 1990-2007, DVMT/person data can be located in the FHWA publication 'Highway Statistics'; Table HM-72, 'Urbanized Areas - Selected Characteristics,' Publication No. FHWA-PL-06-009. The 2008 data is from the ODOT and WDOT HPMS offices only, directly by e-mail (data is not yet published by the FHWA).
| Year | TOTAL MILES: Daily Vehicle Miles of Travel (DVMT) in millions of miles | MILES PER PERSON: DVMT per capita |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 22.4 | 18.7 |
| 1991 | 23.1 | 18.9 |
| 1992 | 25.3 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 26.1 | 20.3 |
| 1994 | 26.5 | 20.2 |
| 1995 | 27.8 | 20.8 |
| 1996 | 29.3 | 21.6 |
| 1997 | 30.2 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 31.1 | 21.1 |
| 1999 | 30.9 | 20.7 |
| 2000 | 31.5 | 20.3 |
| 2001 | 31.8 | 20.0 |
| 2002 | 31.8 | 19.8 |
| 2003 | 32.5 | 19.3 |
| 2004 |
34.2 |
20.2 |
| 2005 |
35.1 |
20.3 |
| 2006 |
35.4 |
19.9 |
| 2007 |
35.2 |
19.5 |
| 2008 | 34.3 | 18.7 |
Portland, Oregon only data
The second geographic area is the Portland portion only of the above noted Portland-Vancouver area. The source is directly from both the FHWA and ODOT/ HPMS for 1990-2008. The subset of information for Portland only is extracted as a separate group of figures. The geographic area of Portland is uniquely defined in the HPMS program as a Federal-Aid Urbanized Area, and includes portions of Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties. The 2008 data only is directly from ODOT and WDOT HPMS offices.
| Year | TOTAL MILES: Daily Vehicle Miles of Travel (DVMT) in millions of miles | MILES PER PERSON: DVMT per capita |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 19.4 | 18.8 |
| 1991 | 20.0 | 19.2 |
| 1992 | 20.9 | 19.8 |
| 1993 | 22.6 | 20.9 |
| 1994 | 22.1 | 20.1 |
| 1995 | 23.3 | 20.9 |
| 1996 | 24.6 | 21.7 |
| 1997 | 25.3 | 20.8 |
| 1998 | 26.0 | 21.0 |
| 1999 | 25.8 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 26.2 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 26.4 | 19.8 |
| 2002 | 26.3 | 19.5 |
| 2003 | 26.8 | 19.5 |
| 2004 |
28.4 |
20.7 |
| 2005 |
29.2 |
20.9 |
| 2006 |
29.2 |
20.0 |
| 2007 |
29.2 |
20.0 |
| 2008 | 28.4 | 19.3 |
In 2008, the Portland only DVMT was estimated to be 28,409,000 miles, with a population of 1,475,000. The Portland-Vancouver, DVMT was 34,293,000 miles, and the population was 1,831,000.
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data files
- 2007 daily vehicle miles of travel - for Portland only, and the Portland-Vancouver area 20K Adobe Acrobat PDF