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Table 1-1M: System Kilometers Within the United States

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Table 1-1M: System Kilometers Within the United States

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  1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Highwaya 5,706,240 5,937,942 6,002,985 6,176,897 6,211,806 6,218,364 6,223,214 6,250,563 6,278,181 6,284,828 6,287,055 6,296,117 6,308,068 6,350,265 6,286,564 6,304,192 6,334,735 6,354,229 6,383,439 6,395,705 6,407,622 6,430,351 6,464,318 6,489,078 6,506,221 U
Class I railb,c 333,672 321,544 316,202 308,222 265,255 234,584 192,732 187,691 181,946 177,712 175,953 174,234 170,235 164,359 161,852 160,017 159,727 157,421 161,136 159,528 157,172 153,956 152,567 151,782 151,410 151,151
Amtrakc N N N N 38,624 38,624 38,624 40,234 40,234 40,234 40,234 38,624 40,234 40,234 35,406 37,015 37,015 37,015 37,015 36,492 35,818 35,417 34,936 34,936 34,083 34,083
Transitd                                                    
Commuter railc N N N N N 5,752 6,649 6,498 6,457 6,583 6,583 6,695 5,926 7,109 8,324 8,354 8,383 8,382 10,993 10,959 11,065 11,455 11,220 11,483 11,685 12,169
Heavy rail N N N N N 2,081 2,174 2,203 2,258 2,336 2,342 2,346 2,379 2,457 2,457 2,478 2,507 2,530 2,530 2,571 2,569 2,610 2,613 2,613 2,613 2,613
Light rail N N N N N 618 777 887 898 865 904 913 1,027 1,060 1,087 1,290 1,343 1,444 1,544 1,603 1,910 1,912 2,060 2,158 2,249 2,377
Navigable channelse 40,234 40,234 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 41,843 40,749 40,749 40,749
Oil pipelinef 307,295 339,358 351,917 363,533 351,469 343,764 335,954 328,029 316,309 312,181 306,339 292,759 285,715 289,478 287,506 285,599 284,847 254,675 259,088 257,316 (R) 263,078 (R) 262,193 (R) 262,141 (R) 267,563 (R) 272,922 276,884
Gas pipelineg 1,015,416 1,235,204 1,469,761 1,575,971 1,692,666 1,787,635 2,044,469 1,959,297 1,957,093 2,055,243 2,149,327 2,143,125 2,115,745 2,143,284 2,209,056 2,195,686 2,216,582 2,274,896 2,353,793 2,304,812 2,389,575 (R) 2,388,868 (R) 2,420,117 (R) 2,451,692 (R) 2,466,662 2,478,247

KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are unavailable.

a All public road and street kilometers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. For years prior to 1980, some kilometers of nonpublic roadways are included. No consistent data on private road kilometers are available. Beginning in 1998, approximately 70,000 kilometers of Bureau of Land Management Roads are excluded.

b Data represent kilometers of road owned (aggregate length of road, excluding yard tracks, sidings, and parallel lines).

c Portions of Class I freight railroads, Amtrak, and Commuter rail networks share common trackage. Amtrak data represent kilometers of road operated.

d Transit system length is measured in directional route-kilometers. Directional route-kilometers are the distance in each direction over which public transportation vehicles travel while in revenue service. Directional route-kilometers are computed with regard to direction of service, but without regard to the number of traffic lanes or rail tracks existing in the right-of-way. Beginning in 2002, directional route-kilometers data for the Commuter and Light rail modes include purchased transportation. 2005 and later years directional route-kilometer data for the Heavy rail mode include purchased transportation.

e These are estimated sums of all domestic waterways which include rivers, bays, channels, and the inner route of the Southeast Alaskan Islands, but does not include the Great Lakes or deep ocean traffic. The Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center monitored 20,297 kilometers as commercially significant inland shallow-draft waterways in 2001. Beginning in 2007, waterways connecting lakes and the St. Lawrence seaway inside the U.S. are included.

f Includes trunk and gathering lines for crude-oil pipeline. CO2 or other is excluded for 2004 to 2008. The large drop in kilometer between 2000 and 2001 is due to a change in the source of the data.

g Excludes service pipelines. Data not adjusted to common diameter equivalent. Kilometers as of the end of each year. Data includes gathering, transmission, and distribution mains. Prior to 1985 data also include field lines. See table 1-10 for a more detailed breakout of Oil and Gas pipeline kilometers. Length data reported in Gas Facts prior to 1985 was taken from the American Gas Association's member survey, the Uniform Statistical Report, supplemented with estimates for companies that did not participate. Gas Facts length data is now based on information reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation on Form 7100. Since data for 1985 and later years are obtained from the Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration, data for these years are not comparable with prior years or with numbers published in the previous NTS reports.

NOTE

1 mile = 1.609344 kilometers

SOURCES

Highway:

1960-95: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table HM-212.

1996-2008: Ibid., Highway Statistics, table HM-20, (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/hsspubs.cfm as of Dec. 21, 2010.

Class I rail:

1960-09: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), page 3, and similar tables in earlier editions.

Amtrak:

1980: Amtrak, Corporate Planning and Development, personal communication (Washington, DC).

1985-2001: Amtrak, Corporate Planning and Development, Amtrak Annual Report, Statistical Appendix (Washington, DC: Annual Issues).

2002-09: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), page 77, and similar tables in earlier editions.

Transit:

1985-95: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), available at http://www.ntdprogram.gov/ntdprogram as of Nov. 16, 2009.

1996-2009: Ibid., National Transit Database (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 23 and similar tables in earlier edition, available at http://www.ntdprogram.gov/ntdprogram as of Dec. 21, 2010.

Navigable channels:

1960-96: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ohio River Division, Huntington District, Ohio River Navigation System Report, 1996, Commerce on the Ohio River and its Tributaries (Fort Belvoir, VA: 1996), page 2.

1997-99: Ibid., Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center Databases, personal communication, Aug. 3, 2001.

2000-04: Ibid., personal communication, Apr. 21, 2006.

2005-06: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, personal communication, Dec. 12, 2006.

2007-08: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, personal communication, May 13, 2009 and Dec. 15, 2009.

Oil pipeline:

1960-2000: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002), page 58.

2001-03: U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Pipeline Statistics, available at http://ops.dot.gov/stats.htm as of May 22, 2009.

2004-09: U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Pipeline Statistics, available at http://ops.dot.gov/stats.htm as of Nov. 30, 2010.

Gas pipeline:

1960-80: American Gas Association, Gas Facts (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), table 5-1 and similar tables in earlier editions, personal communication, May 07, 2009.

1985-2009: U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Pipeline Statistics, available at http://ops.dot.gov/stats.htm as of Nov. 30, 2010.