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Bureau of Transportation StatisticsOur mission: To lead in developing transportation data and information...
While transportation enhances the quality of our lives, it also generates environmental impacts that can lead to human health problems and ecological damage. Overall, most transportation air emissions, such as particulates, have declined since...
Transportation is a major sector of the U.S. economy. It moves people and goods, employs millions of workers, generates revenue, and consumes resources and services produced by other sectors of the economy. In 2003, transportation-related goods and...
The U.S. transportation network makes possible a high degree of personal mobility and freight activity. The data in this section show growth in travel and freight shipments over time. Factors influencing this growth include, among others: greater vehicle availability,...
Ensuring security of all transportation modes and facilities and the people who use them is a national priority. While much of the initial national focus after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was on aircraft and airports, attention is also...
The safety of the traveling public is of major concern for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Although progress has been made in reducing fatalities, roughly 45 percent of U.S. deaths due to unintentional injury involve transportation. Roughly 95...
The U.S. transportation system is an extensive, inter-related public and private network of roads, airports, railroads, transit routes, waterways, terminals, ports, and pipelines. Millions of people and businesses rely on this...
Norman Y. Mineta Secretary
Bureau of Transportation StatisticsRick Kowalewski Deputy Director
William J. Chang Associate Director for Information Systems
Mary J. Hutzler Associate Director for Statistical Programs...
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1980 1990 1995 2000 2001 Highway total 34,553 R62,629 R79,375 R103,952 U Federal 11,706 R15,517 R20,144 R27,759 29,950...(Millions of current dollars)
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1980 1990 1995 2000 2001 Highway total 25,268 49,945 66,743 87,800 U Federal: Highway Trust Fund-Highway Accounta...