United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-07-16 monographic deposited born digital 49 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-836R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R P0b002ee180396b44 f:d01836r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-23 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R GAO-01-836R Federal aid for highways Highway safety Public roads or highways FHwA Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program Correspondence A01404 The National Association of Counties has raised concerns about the safety of rural roads and contends that these roads do not receive an adequate level of funding that could be used to make these roads safer. Rural local roads, which account for more than half of the 8.2 million miles of roadways in the United States, had the highest rate of fatalities per vehicle mile traveled of all types of roadways--over six times that of urban interstates. This report reviews federal highway funding on a state-by-state basis for fiscal years 1992 through 2000 by individual federal highway program and type of roadway. GAO found that about 59 percent of all federal highway funds available to states during fiscal years 1992 through 2000 were spent on urban roads, while the remaining 41 percent went to rural roads. Although only about 40 percent of all vehicle miles were traveled on rural roads, about 60 percent of the traffic accident fatalities that occurred in 1999 took place on rural roads. The four largest federal highway aid programs that provided funding were the Surface Transportation, National Highway System, Interstate Maintenance, and Bridge Replacement Programs. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R.pdf GAO-01-836R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-836R Correspondence GAO-01-836R; Federal Highway Funding by Program and Type of Roadway, With Related Safety Data; Federal aid for highways Highway safety Public roads or highways FHwA Highway Bridge Replacement and Rehabilitation Program