Figure 15-4 - Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Type of Highway Vehicle: 2003

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NOTES: Highway includes passenger cars, buses, light-duty trucks, and other trucks. Total, all modes does not include international bunker fuels. International...

BOX 13-A - Measuring Vehicle Loadings

Planning agencies design roadways to have a specific lifespan based on the expected volume and weight of vehicle traffic. Traffic streams are composed of a variety of vehicles of different weights and axle configurations. Therefore, loading...

Transportation Fatality Rates

There were about 44,900 fatalities related to transportation in 2003-15.4 fatalities per 100,000 U.S. residents.1 This is the same rate as in 1993, when there were about 42,800 deaths [1, 3]. Approximately 95 percent of all...

Airport Runway Conditions

Airport runway conditions stayed about the same at the nation's major public-use airports (box 2-B) between 1997 and 20041 [1, 2]. At the nation's commercial service airports, pavement in poor condition remained at 2 percent from 1997 through 2004...

BOX 1-B - Domestic Freight Ton-Miles Data

Most recently, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has gathered three datasets on freight ton-miles. Here, BTS compiled the data from a variety of modal and other sources to produce annual trend data (see table 1-9b in...

BOX 4-A - 2001 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)

The 2001 NHTS was sponsored by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Households were asked about all the trips1 they took on a specific...

Figure 2-2 - Transportation Capital Stock for Selected Modes: 1993-2003

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NOTES:Unless otherwise noted, data include only privately owned capital stock. Consumer motor vehicles are considered consumer durable goods. In-house...

Passenger Border Crossings

There were approximately 312 million passenger crossings into the United States by land from Canada and Mexico in 2004, an increase of 2.5 percent from the 304 million crossings in 19951 [1]. These crossings were made in personal vehicles, buses,...

Domestic Freight Ton-Miles

All modes of freight transportation, combined, generated 4.4 trillion domestic ton-miles in 2002, 18 percent more than in 1992 (box 1-B). This represents a growth rate of 1.7 percent per year during the period.

Domestic ton-miles for all...

Figure 4-2 - Long-Distance Trip-Miles by Mode: 2001

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NOTE: Excludes trips where mode was not reported. Other includes watercraft (e.g., ship, ferry, and motorboat); taxi, limousine, and hotel/airport shuttle; bicycle and walking; and...