The graph shows monthly travel in 2008, the previous year, ten years prior, and twenty years prior.
Using the table beneath the graph, total travel in 2008 decreased 1.8 percent from 2007. This is the
second consecutive year to have a drop in miles traveled. A decrease from a prior year had not occurred
since the early 1980s. Total travel in 2008 increased 9.6 percent from ten years prior (1998) and
increased 41.1 percent from twenty years prior (1988). Travel increased 28.8 percent from 1988 to 1998.
Note: An archive is available.
Sources: "State of Nebraska Automatic Traffic Recorder Data." Nebraska Department of Roads,
Lincoln, NE. Nebraska Energy Office, Lincoln, NE.
Notes: Travel was affected by winter weather in the following months:
January of 1996, 2001, 2004, 2005, and 2007; February of 1994, 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2007; March of
1995, 1998, 2002, and 2006; October of 1997; November of 2000, 2003, 2004, and 2005; and December of
2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008. NA = Not Available. Numbers in red have
been revised.
The table and graph were completed on February 23, 2009.
