Figure 68 - Serious Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries by Age and Gender: 2001

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NOTES: A pedalcyclist is a person on a vehicle that is powered solely by pedals. A minor injury is one in which the victim was...

Daily Passenger Travel

In their daily nonoccupational travel, people in the United States journeyed about 4 trillion miles in 2001, or 14,500 miles per person per year1 [1]. On average, people traveled 40 miles per day, 88 percent of it (35 miles) in a personal vehicle2 such as an automobile...

Figure 109 - Gross Government Investments in Transportation Infrastructure by Level of Government: 1990-2000

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NOTES: Investment in transportation infrastructure includes the purchase or construction value of...

Lift- or Ramp-Equipped Buses and Rail Stations - Box

While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 requires public transit services, under specific conditions, to be accessible to persons with special needs, it did not impose a statutory deadline...

Highway Condition

The condition of roads in the United States improved between 1993 and 2001.1 For instance, the percentage of rural Interstate mileage in poor or mediocre condition declined from 35 percent in 1993 to 14 percent in 2001 (figure 83). Moreover, poor or mediocre urban...

Hazardous Materials Incidents and Injuries

Transportation firms reported more than 17,700 hazardous materials incidents in 2001.1 These incidents resulted in 7 deaths and 143 injuries, compared with annual averages of 21 deaths and 445 injuries between 1991 and 2001. During that decade, the...

Figure 106 - Federal, State, and Local Government Transportation-Related Expenditures from Own Funds: Fiscal Years 1990-2000

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NOTES: Federal expenditures from own funds consists of outlays of the federal...

Years of Potential Life Lost from Transportation Accidents

For people under 65 years of age, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has ranked transportation accidents as the third leading cause of death in the United States (after cancer and heart disease) each year from 1991 to 2000 [1]....

Figure 17 - Amtrak Hours of Delay by Cause: 1993-1999

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1 Includes equipment malfunctions, train servicing in stations, and passenger-related delays.

2 Includes delays for track repairs/track conditions...

Figure 55 - Crossties Installed or Replaced by U.S. Class I Railroads: 1990-2001

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NOTE: Locomotive data are for Class I railroads only. Freight car data cover Class I railroads, other railroads, and private car owners....