| Number of Motor Vehicle Registrations (1999) |
Private/commercial automobiles |
895,327 |
Private/commercial trucks |
469,537 |
Private/commercial buses |
1,096 |
private/commercial motorcycles (1997) |
15,953 |
Publicly owned vehicles |
17,781 |
Number of Driver’s Licenses (2001) 1,959,725
Total annual travel on Arkansas streets, roads, highways,
estimated by DMV |
1920 |
169 million miles |
1960 |
7.387 billion miles |
1980 |
16.28 billion miles |
1997 |
26.883 billion miles |
Total gasoline usage in Arkansas, 1999: 1,462,091,000 gallons
Disbursements for highways (and highway patrol & safety) in Arkansas, all levels of government, 1997: $1,003,129,000 (57,066,000 or 5.6% of total expenditures for safety measures and Highway patrol)
Arkansas motor vehicle traffic fatalities |
1985 |
452 |
1990 |
521 |
1995 |
631 |
1999 |
604 |
