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U I Y PUBLIC ROADS ADMfNlSTRATION FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY

l NFORMAT l ONAL MEMORANDUM

DATE: MAY 31, 1946

SUBJECT: TRAFFIC VOLUME TRENOS

Traffic during April 1940 continued to show approriaately the iy""". same recovery from wartime levels as in the previous three months. ii On the basis of preliminary reports, total travel on rural roads during April 1948 was 51.3 percent above that of April 1946 and only 3.6 percent below that of April 1941. Traffic on main hieh- ways was 1.4 percent below, and that on local roads was 2.3 percent below the 2941 figures.

Rural. traffic inthe two western regionswas20.8 percent sbwd p corresponding 1941 counts, while that in the central regions wag 4.2 percent below, and that in the eastern regions was 9.8 percent below the 1941 levels. In comparison with 1945 figures, traffic in the western regions increased 69.2 percent, that in the central regions 47.7 percent, and that in the eastern regions 51.0 percent.

Comp+arisons of city traffic .in April 1946 with corresponding traffic in April 1945 are as follows:

p 6 stations in Chicago, ILlinois f37.8 percent 3 stations in Detroit, Michigan f23.9 percent 1 stationinS.anta Fe, New Mexico t38.9 percent 5 stations in St, Louis, Missouri $37.9 percent 13 stations in Washington, D. C. t37.4 percent

ti. S. FAIRBANK,DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, Puscrc ROADS ADMINISTRATION

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North Carolina North Dakota

Wkade Island South Carolina Ssuth Dakota 4 C&RPRAL RPGIOAS

a11 States except Delmrare, Florida. Indiana, Kenses, Louisiana, Marylande Minnesota. flew Jersey, Tennessee, and Virginia.

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F TABLE 2.--REVISED SUHMARY OF AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC RECORDER DATA MARCH 1946 INCAliDING 633 STA?'IONS IN 45 STATES

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NEW ENGLAND CAST SOUTH CENTRA Connect i cut

Massachusetts New Hampohi re Tennessee Rhode Island

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Wea t Virgini a Fb Subtotal north New Mexico

North Carolina Subtotat south California

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EAST ~tiORTB CENTRAL

WEST NORTE CENTRAL

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locrt !- l~oatbined State and highrnyr. '~ncluder all Stnt.. erccpt Yinncrotr, New Jerray and South Caratin.. / 3~bnorma! condition. in 1945 ar 1946 nf fccted 1 count in ~orthDakota. excluding stat ion 15, the increnrc im 34.S percent*

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TABLE 3. --NUMBER OF YEtlICLBS, CLASSIFIED BY TYPES, USING TOLL FACILITIES IN APRIL 1948 COMPARED WITW THOSE IN APRIL 1945 AND 1941.

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County. New York

2 in the Great Lakes Region

ubtotal - 6 facilities

n the Ohio River3 ,n Kentucky

Syhtotal - 8 facilities

6 on the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers St. Louis and north 3 nn the Mississippi River south of St. Louis

Subtotal - 9 facilities

the Missouri River the Missouri River area

Subtotal - 5 facilities

5 in the Oregon-Washington area

TOTAL - 70 facilities

'~~esefscilitl'es have comparative dnts for I946@ 1Q4S1 and 194% and are included ia the larger total belcw. rpro of these facilities are in Western New York and thefefo~eare pelsted to ~imiEarfsciiltiem in the Central States*

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FIGURE 1,- PERCENTAGE RELATIONS OF RURAL TRAFFIC IN MONTHS OF tW4,t945 AND 1946 WITH THAT lN CORRESPONDING MONTHS OF 1941.

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