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KEY: dwt = deadweight tons.
NOTE: Calls are by oceangoing vessels of 10,000 dwt or greater at U.S. ports, excluding Great...
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NOTES: Railroad diesel fuel price and highway vehicle- and aircraft-miles of travel data were not available for 2003 when this report was prepared. Current dollars (...
There were about 45,500 fatalities related to transportation in 2002—16 fatalities per 100,000 U.S. residents1 [1, 2, 4]. This is the same rate as in 1992, when there were about 42,000 deaths. Approximately 94 percent of all transportation fatalities in...
Airport runway conditions stayed about the same at the nation’s major public-use airports between 1993 and 2003 [1] (box 11-B). At the nation’s commercial service airports, pavement in poor condition declined from 3 percent of runways in 1993 to 2 percent...
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration, 2001 National Household Travel Survey data, CD-ROM, February 2004...
People in the United States made, on average, nine long-distance trips per person in 2001. This amounted to a total of 2.6 billion trips covering 1.4 trillion miles. The distance traveled on these trips in 2001 was about 4,900 miles per person [1].
Long-...
Planning agencies design roadways to have a specific lifespan based on the expected volume and weight of vehicle traffic [1]. Since traffic streams are composed of a variety of vehicles of different...
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NOTE: see table 2-2 in appendix B.
SOURCES: Passenger-miles—U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National...
All modes of freight transportation, combined, generated 4.3 trillion domestic ton-miles in 2001, 20 percent more than in 1991 (box 2-B). This represents an average growth rate of 1.8 percent per year during the period.
Domestic ton-miles for all modes, except...
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NOTES: Based on data from the Truck Weight Study that are collected by the states for varying time periods each year and are not adjusted to typify annual...