The
Federal Highway Administration said motorists drove 256.5
billion miles in April, up 90.6 billion miles over April 2020.
In seasonally adjusted figures, travel in April was down 4.7%,
or 12.3 billion miles, versus March 2021, the agency said.
In a sign of the pandemic's continuing impact on road use, U.S.
motorists drove 20 billion fewer miles in April versus April
2019. Many Americans continue to work from home or are only
going into offices occasionally.
For all of 2020, road travel fell 13.2% to 2.83 trillion vehicle
miles, down 430 billion miles, the lowest in a year since 2001.
Travel is starting to pick up in general, including air and
transit, as more Americans get vaccinated and return to offices
or take leisure or business trips.
There were about 500 million fewer airline passengers in 2020
and about 5.3 billion fewer trips in 2020 on buses and rail
systems.
U.S. airline passenger travel remains down about 25% over
prepandemic levels, but has risen sharply in recent months.
(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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