Figure 5-8 Injury Rates for Select Transportation Modes: 1990–2014
NOTES: Graphs with same color trend lines have identical scales. Light-duty vehicles includes passenger car and light truck occupants. Air includes serious injuries only. Nonoccupant includes pedestrians and riders of nonmotorized bicycles and other pedal-powered vehicles and is measured on a per capita basis because exposure based estimated are not available. Passenger rail data for years before 1997 are not available.
SOURCES: Highway and Air–Calculated by U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) based upon multiple sources as cited in USDOT, BTS, National Transportation Statistic, tables 2-9, 2-14, 2-17, 2-19, 2-21, and 2-23, available at www.bts.gov as June 2016. Rail–USDOT, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Safety Analysis, table 1-13, available at safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety as of June 2016.