Figure 8-1 - Labor Productivity of Major Sectors: 1992-2002 Output per hour

Excel | CSV | Table Version

Note: See table 8-1 in appendix B for detailed notes on these datasets.

SOURCES: Transportation—U.S. Department of Transportation,...

Household Spending on Transportation

On average, households spent $7,681 (in chained 2000 dollars1) on transportation in 2003. This represented 20 percent of all household expenditures that year. Only housing cost households more (31 percent)2 [1].

Between 1993 and...

Figure 4-13 - Long-Distance Trips by Purpose and Age: 2001

Excel | CSV | Table Version

SOURCES: Long-distance trips—U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and USDOT...

Figure 3-3 - Highway Fatalities per 100 Million Vehicle-Miles for Selected Vehicle Types: 1993-2003

Excel | CSV | Table Version

NOTES: Large trucks are defined as trucks over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR), including single-unit trucks and...

Figure 4-14 - Long-Distance Trips by Selected Mode and Age: 2001

Excel | CSV | Table Version

SOURCES: Long-distance trips—U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and...

Figure 13-4 - Loadings on Rural Interstate Highways by Vehicle Type: 2003

Excel | CSV | Table Version

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...

Figure 14-5 - Average Motor Gasoline Prices and Highway Vehicle-Miles of Travel per Capita: 1994-2004

Excel | CSV | Table Version

NOTES: Railroad diesel fuel price and highway vehicle- and aircraft-miles of travel data were not available for 2004 when this...

Government Transportation Expenditures

Spending on building, maintaining, operating, and administering the nation's transportation system by all levels of government totaled $176.2 billion in fiscal year 2001 (in chained 2000 dollars1). The federal government spent 30...

Introduction

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 19911 and subsequent authorizing legislation charged the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)-now a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration-with compiling, analyzing, and publishing a...

Transit Vehicle Reliability

Transit service interruptions due to mechanical failures remained relatively level from 1995 through 2000, averaging 13 mechanical problems per 100,000 revenue vehicle-miles. However, between 2001 and 2003-after the definition of service...