BTS | TABLE 1-2a Change in Passenger-Miles of Travel by Selected Mode: 1992-2002

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TABLE 1-2a Change in Passenger-Miles of Travel by Selected Mode: 1992–2002

1992 = 100

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	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Air	100	102	109	114	123	127	131	138	145	137	136
Passenger car	100	100	102	104	106	108	112	113	115	116	119
Light truck	100	104	106	105	108	113	115	119	122	140	139
Bus	100	106	111	111	114	118	121	133	131	122	118
Transit	100	98	98	99	103	105	110	114	118	122	120
Amtrak	100	102	97	91	83	85	87	88	90	91	90

NOTES: Passenger car does not include motorcycle data. Transit includes travel by motor bus, heavy rail, commuter rail, light rail, ferry boat, trolley bus, demand response, and other transit vehicles. Bus comprises all travel by bus including intercity, transit, and school bus. This results in some double counting of bus passenger-miles of travel (pmt). For consistency, air pmt includes air carrier aviation only, as general aviation pmt 2002 data were not available at the time this report was prepared.

To make it easier to compare data of differing magnitudes over time, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics divided the data for all years in each category (see table 1-2b) by the initial year value and multiplied the result by 100.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, calculations using data in table 1-2b.