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Figure 8-1 - Roadside Truck Inspections: 1993-2003

Figure 8-1 - Roadside Truck Inspections: 1993-2003

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NOTES: Trucks are taken out of service (OOS) when inspectors find serious violations that warrant the issuance of a vehicle OOS order. There may be some inconsistencies across the 1993...

Household Spending on Transportation

Household Spending on Transportation

On average, households spent $7,825 (in chained 2000 dollars1) on transportation in 2002. This represented 19 percent of all household expenditures that year. Only housing cost households more (33 percent)2 [1].

Over the last 10 years,...

Figure 3-3 - U.S. Air Carrier On-Time Performance: 1995-2003

Figure 3-3 - U.S. Air Carrier On-Time Performance: 1995-2003

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NOTES: Flights are on time if they depart from or arrive at the gate less than 15 minutes after their scheduled departure or arrival times. See table 3-4 in appendix B for...

Government Transportation Expenditures

Government Transportation Expenditures

Spending on building, maintaining, operating, and administering the nation’s transportation system by all levels of government totaled $167.5 billion in 2000 (in chained 2000 dollars1). The federal government spent 30 percent of the funds; state and...

Introduction

Introduction

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 19911 charged the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) with compiling, analyzing, and publishing a comprehensive set of transportation statistics, including information on: productivity in various parts of the...

Transit Vehicle Reliability

Transit Vehicle Reliability

Transit service1 interruptions due to mechanical failures remained relatively level from 1995 through 2000,2 averaging between 18 and 19 mechanical problems per 100,000 revenue vehicle-miles [1, 2] (figure 8-7).

Among transit vehicles, buses and light rail...