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Airfare Index Research Data - Box

Airfare Index Research Data - Box Origin and Destination (O&D) Survey Airfare Index Data

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) quarterly Passenger Origin and Destination (O&D) Survey provides the data for the O&D Survey Airfare Index. Through this passenger survey, BTS...

Amtrak On-Time Performance

Amtrak On-Time Performance

Seventy-seven percent of Amtrak trains arrived at their final destination on time in 2002 [1]. While this represented a 2 percent improvement compared with 2001, it still fell short of the system’s performance during the 1998 to 2000 period (figure 16)....

Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries - Box

Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries - Box National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) Injury Data

Use of NEISS data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) enables analyses of injuries by factors such as age and gender, type of vehicle, and severity of injuries sustained...

Urban Highway Travel Times - Box

Urban Highway Travel Times - Box Travel Time Index

Developed by the Texas Transportation Institute, the Travel Time Index is the ratio of peak period travel time to free-flow travel time. A value of 1.0 indicates that traffic is moving freely. A value of 1.3 indicates that it takes 30...

U.S. Air Carrier On-Time Performance

U.S. Air Carrier On-Time Performance

Just over 82 percent of domestic air flights arrived on time in 2002, compared with 75 percent in 1996. Late flights totaled 16 percent in 2002, down from 23 percent in 1996 (figure 15). Over this period, late, cancelled, or diverted flights peaked at 1...

Transit Ridership

Transit Ridership

Transit ridership has grown steadily since 1996, reaching 9.0 billion unlinked trips (see box) in 2001, an increase of 19 percent (figure 45). This represents an annual change of 4 percent compared with the growth in U.S. resident population of 1 percent over the same...