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Figure 1 - Impacts of Transportation on the Environment

Monday, September 10, 2012

Figure 1 - Impacts of Transportation on the Environment

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Figure 1 - Impacts of Transportation on the Environment. If you are a user with disability and cannot view this image, use the text version. If you need further assistance, call 800-853-1351.

1 Vehicle here includes highway vehicles, airplanes, marine vessels, railroad cars and locomotives, and transit equipment.
2 Dependent on ambient levels or concentrations of pollutants and exposure to those outputs.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,Indicators of the Environmental Impacts of Transportation (Washington, DC: October 1999), figure 1-1.