2023 Car Usage

 

This is the 13th year I have tracked car usage, so I think it's safe to say this has become a habit. As has the nerdy tracking and graphing of it in Microsoft Excel. (You can check out 2022 here, 2021 here, 2020 here, 2019 here, 2018 here, 2017 here, 2016 here, 2015 here, 2014 here, 2013 here, 2012 here, 2011 here, 2010 here, and 2009 here.)

As before, the Philly totals represent, in order, number of trips, number of legs represented in those trips (i.e. going to and from my in-laws, making one stop to get gas, counts as three legs), and number of legs in which I was driven (rather than driving).
 
The other city totals represent, in order, number of times I was in that location, number of days I was in that location, number of trips, number of legs represented in those trips, and number of legs in which I was driven.

January 15/52/0 NYC 1/1/1/4/0 DC 1/2/2/9/0

February 12/43/0 NYC 1/1/0/0/1 Chicago 1/1/0/0/2

March 13/48/0 Wilmington 1/1/0/0/3 Minneapolis 1/1/0/0/4 Newark 1/1/0/0/5

April 14/32/0 OCNJ 1/2/1/3/0 Baltimore 1/1/1/3/0 Lancaster 1/1/1/6/0 OC 1/2/1/3/0 AC 1/1/1/6/0

May 10/27/0 Easton 1/1/1/4/0 Rehoboth 1/1/1/5/0 Boston 1/2/2/6/0

June 15/48/0 NYC 1/1/0/0/1

July 8/30/0 Miami Beach 1/4/0/0/3 Italy 1/8/0/0/5

August 12/39/0 SJ 1/8/12/39/2 NC 1/1/0/0/4 DC 1/1/1/3/0

September 14/52/0 Hershey 1/2/2/10/0 OCNJ 1/2/2/2/0 NYC 1/1/0/0/0

October 12/37/2 NYC 2/2/2/13/0

November 10/31/0 OCNJ 1/3/4/10/0 Wilmington 1/1/1/2/0

December 10/39/0 CA 1/9/ 16/50/8

So my Philly total is 145 trips involving 478 legs, plus another 2 legs in which I was driven.  So that works out to about 12 car trips and 40 legs a month. Then counting non-Philly trips it's closer to 16 car trips and 52 legs a month. 

Note that my "legs per trip" ratio is well over 2 - in fact it's over 3 - so I'm pleased I've been able to bundle trips (since it's better for the environment and the pocketbook to start a warm car than a cold one). Indeed, for this reason I very rarely do the typical "drive somewhere and then drive home."

The family car is literally as old as Asher, since I got it the day after we got back from Oklahoma City. Asher turns 9 in April, and we've put about 63,000 miles on the car, so we're still tracking at about 7,500 miles a year (as opposed to a typical suburban household with two adults clocking 15,000 miles times two cars). Urban living is green living!