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NOTE: Excludes trips where income was not reported.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and...
Highway-related capital stock (highway infrastructure, consumer motor vehicles, and trucking and warehousing) represented the majority of the nation’s transportation capital stock, $2,432 billion in 2001 (in chained 2000 dollars1). Highway infrastructure...
The amount of freight carried by railroads between 1992 and 2002 increased 26 percent (in tons) and 32 percent (by carload) on railcars (figure 4-5). However, on average, the weight of each railcar remained fairly constant. The average weight of a loaded railcar ranged from 62...
The transportation sector used 17 percent more energy in 2003 than it did in 1993, an average annual growth rate of 1.6 percent. Transportation’s share of the nation’s total energy consumption also grew between 1993 and 2003, from 26 percent...
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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.
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NOTE: Full-size buses have more than 35 seats.
SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National...
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration, 2001 National Household Travel Survey data,...
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NOTES: No data are available for water transportation or natural gas pipeline. Data for local trucking, bus carriers, and petroleum pipeline were not available...
Passenger travel was 1.0 percent more energy efficient in 2001 than in 1991. During the same period, however, freight energy efficiency declined by 5.4 percent1 [1, 2].
Improvements in domestic commercial aviation are the primary reason for the gains in...
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NOTES: Support includes offshore support and crewboats. Liquid barge includes tank barges.
SOURCES: USDOT, BTS, National Transportation Statistics 2002, table 1-...