Highway Trucks by Weight

The number of trucks in the United States grew 41 percent between 1992 and 2002 and 15 percent between 1997 and 2002, according to the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS) conducted once every five years [1, 2]. The 85 million-truck...

Figure 13-2 - Medium Trucks by Vehicle Weight: 1992, 1997, and 2002

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NOTES: Weight is the empty weight of the vehicle plus the average vehicle load. Excludes vehicles owned by federal, state, or local governments; ambulances; buses...

Figure 11-2 - U.S. Trade in Transportation-Related Goods: 1994-2004

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NOTES: Transportation-related goods are motor vehicles and parts, aircraft and spacecraft and parts, railway vehicles and parts, and ships and boats. All dollar...

Figure 6-7 - Transit Rail Stations that are ADA-Compliant by Service Type: 1993-2003

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KEY: ADA = Americans with Disabilities Act.

SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Transit Administration (FTA...

BOX 6-A - National Transit Data

A large amount of transit data including the number of passenger-miles of travel (pmt) are available from both the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). FTA's National Transit Database (NTD) is...

Transportation Injury Rates

Each year a far larger number of people are injured than killed in transportation-related accidents. Over 2.9 million people suffered some kind of injury involving passenger and freight transportation in 2003 (box 3-B). Most of these injuries, 99...

Box 15-D - Hazardous Materials Reporting

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Information System (HMIS) is the primary source of national data on hazardous materials transportation safety. Hazardous materials, as defined in regulations, include nine...

Figure 6-4 - Detail of Commuter-Rail and Light-Rail Transit Ridership: 1993-2003

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SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Summaries and Trends, annual reports, available at http://www....

Cost of Intercity Trips by Train and Bus

Amtrak collected an average of 23 per revenue passenger-mile in 2003 (in chained 2000 dollars1), up 46 percent from 16 per revenue passenger-mile in 1993 (figure 7-3). During the 1990s, Amtrak shifted its focus to urban routes in the...

Figure 10-1 - Federal, State, and Local Government Transportation Revenues: Fiscal Years 1991-2001

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NOTE: To eliminate the effects of inflation over time, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics converted current dollars (see table 10...