BTS | Table 4-15M. Bus Fuel Consumption and Travel

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Table 4-15M. Bus Fuel Consumption and Travel

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
Number registered (thousands)	272	314	378	462	529	593	627	631	645	654	670	686	695	698	716
Vehicle-kilometers traveled (millions)^R	6,920	7,564	7,242	9,817	9,817	7,242	9,173	9,334	9,334	9,817	10,300	10,300	10,622	^R11,011	11,259
Fuel consumed (million liters)	3,131	3,312	3,104	3,986	3,854	3,157	3,388	3,271	3,324	3,517	3,649	3,664	3,748	^R3,888	3,971
Average kilometers traveled per vehicle (thousands)	25.4	^R24.1	^R19.2	21.2	^R18.6	^R12.2	^R14.6	14.8	14.5	15.0	15.4	15.0	15.3	^R15.8	15.7
Average kilometers traveled per liter	2.2	^R2.3	2.3	2.5	2.5	2.3	2.7	2.9	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.8	2.8
Average fuel consumed per vehicle^R (liters)	11,504	10,539	8,221	^R8,627	^R7,291	5,319	^R5,406	5,181	5,155	5,374	5,443	5,345	^R5,394	^R5,568	5,549

KEY: R = revised.

NOTE: Includes both publicly and privately owned school, transit, and other commercial buses.

SOURCES: 1960-94: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: July 1997), table VM-201A.
1995-98: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table VM-1.