Comments on: Wiki Wednesday: Vehicle-Miles Traveled http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/23/wiki-wednesday-vehicle-miles-traveled/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:32:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: gecko http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/23/wiki-wednesday-vehicle-miles-traveled/comment-page-1/#comment-54017 gecko Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:50:50 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/07/23/wiki-wednesday-vehicle-miles-traveled/#comment-54017 It is implied that the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) metric is for vehicles (and, probably not motorcycles although somewhat applicable) using internal combustion engines and or perhaps in the near future for electric cars with conventional characteristics such as size, weight per person, over-powering etc. It seems that it's implied used is not for bicycles and probably should not be applicable to hybrid human-electric vehicles or at least be used with weighting factors to compensate for the extreme difference in efficiencies and emissions and minimal environmental footprint. It should also be clarified how it is used for safety as there are safety statistics for miles traveled (MT?) by pedestrians that are quite discouraging. It is implied that the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) metric is for vehicles (and, probably not motorcycles although somewhat applicable) using internal combustion engines and or perhaps in the near future for electric cars with conventional characteristics such as size, weight per person, over-powering etc.

It seems that it's implied used is not for bicycles and probably should not be applicable to hybrid human-electric vehicles or at least be used with weighting factors to compensate for the extreme difference in efficiencies and emissions and minimal environmental footprint.

It should also be clarified how it is used for safety as there are safety statistics for miles traveled (MT?) by pedestrians that are quite discouraging.

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