Fast Facts from ADOT
Public Motor Vehicle Services
Driver licenses in Arizona
FY2019 | FY2020 | |
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Drivers licensed by ADOT MVD | *5,369,964 | *5,678,867 |
Travel IDs | 645,538 | 1,122,959 |
Commercial driver licenses | 113,735 | 112,096 |
* Driver licenses number previously included identification cards. Recent updates exclude these counts.
Vehicles Registered in Arizona
FY19 | FY20 | |
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vehicles registered | * 7,863,112 | * 7,828,255 |
* Vehicle registrations included an "unassigned category" for law enforcement's use and also included disability placards. Recent updates excluded these counts.
FY19 | FY20 | |
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other alternate-fuel vehicles | 33,299 | 37,477 |
FY19 | FY20 | |
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electric vehicles | 28,770 | 34,898 |
MVD Customers, Transactions and Revenues
FY19 | FY20 | |
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Customers Served | 2.4 million | 2.7 Million |
Transactions | 13.7 million | 15 million |
FY19 | FY20 | |
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Online Transactions | $660 million | $832 million |
Authorized Third Parties | $598 million | $632 million |
ADOT field offices | $159 million | $157 million |
other sources | $140 million | $70.2 million |
Total Revenue collected | $1.56 billion | $1.69 billion |
Road Projects, Preservation & Maintenance
Infrastructure Enhancements: rehabilitation, expansion, modernization, preservation
FY19 | FY20 | |
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rehabilitation projects | $246 million | $228 million |
expansion projects | $164 million | $121 million |
modernization projects | $75 million | $79 million |
preservation projects | $31 million | $37 million |
Spending - trash pickup, emergency response, pothole repair
- $6.7 million trash pickup / year
- $3.9 million emergency response / year
- $3 million pothole repair / year
Maintenance - highways, bridges, plowing snow
- 4,810 bridges
- 118 days plowing snow
Transportation Infrastructure Systems, Services & Safety
What is the volume of traffic in the Phoenix Metro area?

- Currently about 1.7 million vehicles/month
Freeway water removal - what is our capacity?

- With more than 50 pump stations around the Phoenix area freeway system, we can pump about 3.2 million gallons/minute.
- An individual pump inside an ADOT pump station can remove more than 12,000 gallons per minute – the equivalent of emptying a 30,000 gallon swimming pool in less than 3 minutes.
How many traffic signs are there?

- 200,000+ signs statewide
How many striping miles are there in the state?

- 7,000 lane miles maintained by ADOT (6,960) throughout the state
About 26,619 striping miles, requiring about 238,250 gallons of paint
How many Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) features do we have?

- 15,078 lighting fixtures
- 11,303 lighting posts
- 3,140 traffic signal poles
- 615 traffic signal cabinets
- 393 closed-circuit television feeds
- 313 lighting cabinets
- 296 digital message boards
- 257 metered ramps
Transportation Planning & Programming
Vehicular Miles Traveled (VMT) by Roadway (2018)

- 181 million TOTAL daily VMT
- 77.2 million on other arterial roadways
- 40.1 million on interstate highways
- 23.6 million on other freeways and expressways
- 21.7 million on local roadways
- 18.6 million on collector roadways
Roadway types (managed by ADOT)

- 6,780 TOTAL (centerline) miles
- 51,157 miles of local roadway
- 8,251 miles of collector roadway
- 5,972 miles of other arterial roadway
- 1,169 miles of interstate highway
- 233 miles of other freeway and expressway
Five-Year Program Information Related to Roads (2021-2025)
Five-year totals:
- $1.6 billion for pavement and bridge preservation
- $452 million for highway system expansion
- $388 million for highway modernization
Long-Range Transportation Plan information:
- $53.3 billion highway capital needs to 2040 (estimated)
- $22.8 billion revenues (estimated)
- $30.5 billion funding gap (estimated)
Airport funding grants provided to airports in Arizona
- $21 million total average annual program dollars
- 67 airports served
Public Transit Federal Funding Grants allocated to Arizona providers
- $34.86 million, 35 providers from rural public transit CARES funding during pandemic (2020)
- $15.6 million, 27 providers to serve rural public transit needs
- $4 million, 42 providers to serve the elderly and persons with disabilities
- $3.3 million, 12 providers for buses and bus facilities
- $3 million, 11 providers for transit planning needs
- $2.1 million, 2 providers for small urban area needs
Permitting, Inspections & Enforcement
Enforcement and Compliance Division (ECD) Function/Staffing Levels
- ECD consists of Office of the Inspector General and Enforcement Services Bureau
- 279 police officer detective and civilian positions statewide
Ports of Entry
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Manages 22 ports of entry statewide
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Ports of entry monitor all commercial traffic entering Arizona for registration, taxes, size and weight restrictions, commercial driver license requirements, insurance requirements, and equipment safety requirements, and issue permits as required.
K-9 Program
- ADOT-ECD manages a unit of five K-9s to support operations and respond to requests from city and county agencies.
- Officers are trained to interdict drugs, money and human trafficking.
- The program has interdicted one of the largest drug seizures in Mohave County (1,100 lbs).
Border Liaison Unit

- The Unit conducts workshops in Mexico and the United States
- Partners with the motor carrier industry and provides workshops and instructional classes
- Promotes and ensures the safe, efficient movement of people, goods and services through Arizona's southern international ports of entry while promoting compliance with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations