Chapter 6 - Safety

Promoting "public health and safety by working toward the elimination of transportation-related deaths, injuries, and property damage" is a high priority of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) [1]. The United States has made much progress in...

Table 1 - Incidents Against Aviation by Category: 1996-2000

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Map - Safety Belt Use Rates: 2000

1Maine and New Hampshire data are for 1998 from U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Traffic Safety Facts 1998 (Washington, DC: 1999).

SOURCE: U.S. Department of...

Preface

Congress requires the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to report on transportation statistics to the President and Congress. Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2001 (TSAR) is the eighth such report prepared in response to this congressional mandate, laid out in 49 U.S.C...

Figure 2 - Incidents Against Aviation by Geographic Region: 1996-2000

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Civil Aviation Security, Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation (Washington,...

Figure 1 - Labor Productivity Trends by Mode

(Index: 1975 = 100)

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Map - Type of Safety Belt Use Laws, by State: As of 2001

1Primary enforcement allows police officers to stop vehicles and write citations whenever they observe violations of safety belt laws. Secondary enforcement permits police officers to write a citation only...

Figure 1 - Structurally Deficient and Functionally Obsolete Bridges: 1990-2000

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Figure 3 - Vehicle-Miles Traveled (vmt) in the United States: 1997-2001

vmt (in millions)

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Figure 1 - Fatalities in Pipeline Incidents

(Number of fatalities)

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