Table 3-1 An Overview of the Passenger Transportation System, 2005 v. 2011
| 2005 | 2011 | Percent change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. POPULATION (millions) | 296 | 312 | 5.4 |
| AIR (Civil) | |||
| Aircraft and use (domestic) | |||
| Air carrier passenger/cargo aircrafts | 8,225 | 7,028 | -14.6 |
| Air carrier airplane miles flown, billions | 6.7 | 6.0 | -10.6 |
| Passenger enplanements, millions | 657 | 638 | -2.9 |
| RPM, billionsa | 571 | 565 | -1.1 |
| General aviation aircraft | 224,352 | 222,250 | -0.9 |
| Extent | |||
| Public use airports | 5,270 | 5,172 | -1.9 |
| Commercial service airports | 575 | 547 | -4.9 |
| Private use airports and landing fields | 14,584 | 14,339 | -1.7 |
| HIGHWAYS | |||
| Personal vehicles and use | |||
| Cars, SUVs, vans, pickups | |||
| Vehicles, millions | 231.9 | 233.8 | 0.8 |
| VMT, billionsb | 2,749.5 | 2,650.5 | -3.6 |
| PMT, billionsc | 4,504.2 | 3,650.2 | -19.0 |
| Motorcyclesd | |||
| Vehicles, millions | 6.2 | 8.3 | 33.8 |
| VMT, billions | 10.5 | 18.5 | 77.4 |
| PMT, billions | 13.3 | 20.0 | 50.4 |
| Buses | |||
| Vehicles, millions | 0.8 | 0.7 | -17.5 |
| VMT, billions | 7.0 | 13.8 | 97.8 |
| PMT, billions | 148.0 | 292.7 | 97.8 |
| Extent | |||
| Public roads | |||
| Miles of public roads, millions | 4.0 | 4.1 | 2.1 |
| Lane miles of public roads, millions | 8.4 | 8.6 | 2.3 |
| Bridges | 595,362 | 605,087 | 1.6 |
| RAIL | |||
| Equipment and use | |||
| Amtrak | |||
| Stations | 518 | 517 | -0.2 |
| Passenger cars | 1,186 | 1,301 | 9.7 |
| Locomotives in service | 258 | 287 | 11.2 |
| Revenue passengers carried, millions | 25.1 | 31.3 | 25 |
| Revenue passenger miles, billions | 5.4 | 6.7 | 24 |
| Extent | |||
| Miles of railroad operated by: | |||
| Class I freight railroads | 95,664 | 95,387 | -0.3 |
| Regional railroads | 15,388 | 10,355 | -32.7 |
| Local railroads | 29,197 | 32,776 | 12.3 |
| Amtrak (intercity passenger service), route miles | 22,007 | 21,225 | -3.6 |
| TRANSIT | |||
| Vehicles and use | |||
| Transit buses | |||
| Vehicles | 62,899 | 61,127 | -2.8 |
| PMT, billions | 19.6 | 20.0 | 2.3 |
| Unlinked trips, billions | 5.3 | 5.2 | -1.9 |
| Heavy rail cars | |||
| Vehicles | 11,110 | 14,942 | 34.5 |
| PMT, billions | 14.4 | 17.3 | 20.1 |
| Unlinked trips, billions | 2.8 | 3.6 | 29.9 |
| Commuter rail cars and locomotives | |||
| Vehicles | 6,290 | 6,971 | 10.8 |
| PMT, billions | 9.5 | 11.3 | 19.5 |
| Unlinked trips, billions | 0.4 | 0.5 | 9.1 |
| Light rail cars | |||
| Vehicles | 1,645 | 2,284 | 38.8 |
| PMT, billions | 1.7 | 2.2 | 29.3 |
| Unlinked trips, billions | 0.4 | 0.5 | 27.1 |
| Demand response vehicles (e.g., paratransit) | |||
| Vehicles | 28,346 | 31,846 | 12.3 |
| PMT, billions | 0.7 | 0.9 | 19 |
| Unlinked trips, billions | 0.1 | 0.1 | 17.9 |
| Other: (e.g., ferryboat, vanpool) | |||
| Vehicles | 11,622 | 18,965 | 63.2 |
| PMT, billions | 1.2 | 2.6 | 114.7 |
| Unlinked trips, billions | 0.1 | 0.2 | 100 |
| Extent | |||
| Transit rail stations | 2,936 | 3,155 | 7.5 |
| Directional route miles | |||
| Bus routes | 225,053 | 231,372 | 2.8 |
| Commuter rail | 7,118 | 7,576 | 6.4 |
| Heavy rail | 1,622 | 1,617 | -0.3 |
| Light rail | 1,188 | 1,740 | 46.5 |
| WATER | |||
| Vessels | |||
| Non-self-propelled vessels | 33,152 | 31,498 | -5.0 |
| Self-propelled vessels | 8,976 | 8,979 | 0.0 |
| U.S.-flag oceangoing privately owned fleet | 230 | 214 | -7.0 |
| Recreational boats, millions | 12.9 | 12.2 | -5.9 |
| Extent | |||
| Miles of navigable waterways | 25,000 | 25,000 | 0.0 |
| Waterway facilities (including cargo handling docks) | 9,399 | 8,197 | -12.8 |
| Lock chambers | 257 | 239 | -7.0 |
| Lock sites | 212 | 193 | -9.0 |
a Revenue Passenger Miles (RPM): Calculated by multiplying number of paying passengers by miles traveled.
b Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT): Highway—Miles of travel by all types of motor vehicles as determined by the States on the basis of actual traffic counts and established estimating procedures. Transit—the total number of miles traveled by transit vehicles. Commuter rail, heavy rail, and light rail report individual car miles, rather than train miles for vehicle miles.
c Passenger Miles Traveled (PMT): Total miles traveled by all passengers. For example, a car that carries 5 passengers a distance of 3 miles accrues 15 passenger miles traveled.
KEY: PMT=Passenger Miles Traveled; RPM=Revenue Passenger Miles; SUV=Sport Utility Vehicle; VMT=Vehicle Miles Traveled
NOTE: Data is taken from multiple sources, thus the number of significant digits may vary.
SOURCES: Population: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, Vintage 2009 and 2012, available at www.census.gov/popest, as of March 2013. Air: airports, aircraft, VMT—U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Aviation Administration, as cited in USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), National Transportation Statistics (NTS), table 1-3, 1-11, 1-35, available at www.bts.gov, as of January 2014. Enplanements, PMT, ton miles—USDOT BTS, Air Carrier Traffic Statistics, available at bts.gov, as of March 2013. Highways: USDOT Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Highway Statistics 2012, as cited in USDOT BTS NTS, op cit., table 1-4 (roads), 1-6 (lane miles), 1-11 (vehicles) 1-35 (VMT), table 1-40 (PMT); bridges—USDOT FHWA Office of Bridge Technology, National Bridge Inventory Database, as cited in USDOT BTS NTS, op cit., table 1-28. Rail: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts 2006 and 2012 (Washington, DC). Stations—Amtrak, as cited in USDOT BTS NTS, op cit., table 1-7. Transit: USDOT Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database, and as cited in USDOT BTS NTS, op cit., table 1-1 (route miles), 1-7 (stations), 1-11 (vehicles), 1-40 (PMT) as of June 2014. Water: Vessels, waterways, facilities,locks—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Navigation Data Center, available at www.navigationdatacenter.us as of January 2014. Fleet—USDOT, Maritime Administration, available at www.marad.dot.gov as of September 2013. Recreational boats—U.S. Coast Guard, Recreational Boating Statistics, available at www.uscgboating.org as of September 2013.