Rail Infrastructure and Equipment Repairs

Class I railroads1 provide vital freight transportation services—carrying more than one-third of domestic freight ton-miles2 each year [2]. These companies maintained 170,048 miles of track in 2002, down from 190,591 miles in 1992 [1]. Class I...

Figure 4-7 - Average Loaded U.S. Railcar Weight for Selected Commodities: 1992 and 2002

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NOTE: Miscellaneous mixed shipments is mostly intermodal traffic. Some intermodal traffic is included in commodity-specific categories, as well....

Transit Ridership - Box 7-A

Transit authorities reporting to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) provide data on the number of passengers who board public transportation vehicles rather than the number of passengers they serve....

Figure 3-10 - Share of U.S. Residents Experiencing Highway Traffic Congestion: 2002

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KEY: MSA = metropolitan statistical area.

NOTE: See corresponding tables for information on months/years of original data.

Figure 4-6 - Average Loaded U.S. Railcar Weight: 1992-2002

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NOTE: Average railcar weight is total tons transported divided by total carloads transported.

SOURCE: Association of American of Railroads, Railroad Facts...

Figure 11-12 - Average Age of Amtrak Locomotive and Car Fleets: Fiscal Years 1991-2001

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SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), National Transportation Statistics 2003, table 1-30,...

Figure 7-7 - Share of Transit Buses that are Lift- or Ramp-Equipped by Bus Type: 1993-2002

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Summaries and Trends, Annual Reports, available at...

Figure 15-8 - Freight Ton-Miles, Energy Consumption, and Energy Efficiency Index: 1991-2001

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NOTE: For detailed information on data used here, see tables 15-7 and 15-8 in appendix B.

SOURCES: Passenger-miles of...

Figure 1-1 - Labor Productivity of Major Sectors: 1991-2001

Output per hour

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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...

Figure 2-9 - Commercial Freight Activity for All Modes by Weight: 1993, 1997, and 2002

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NOTES: 2002 Commodity Flow Survey and supplemental data are preliminary. For information on coverage of supplemental estimates, see tables 2-9, 2-10,...