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Rail Freight Times

Rail Freight Times

Class I rail freight line-haul speeds averaged 21.8 miles-per-hour in the first-quarter of 2005, a decrease of 1.5 percent from the previous quarter1 (figure 5-12). Between the first quarter of 2002 and the first quarter of 2005, average line-haul speeds...

Amtrak On-Time Performance

Amtrak On-Time Performance

Seventy-one percent of Amtrak trains arrived at their final destination on time in 2004 [2]. This was below the system's performance peak of 76 percent in 2002 (figure 5-10). Amtrak counts a train as delayed if it arrives at least 10 to 30 minutes...

Figure 14-1 - U.S. Energy Consumption by Sector: 1994-2004

Figure 14-1 - U.S. Energy Consumption by Sector: 1994-2004

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KEY: Btu = British thermal units; GDP = Gross Domestic Product (in chained 2000 dollars).

SOURCES: U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE), Energy Information...

Passenger-Miles of Travel

Passenger-Miles of Travel

Estimated U.S. passenger-miles of travel (pmt) increased 27 percent between 1992 and 2002 to total 5.0 trillion in 2002, an average of about 17,000 miles for every man, woman, and child (box 1-A) [2].

Almost 87 percent of pmt in 2002 was in...

Figure 14-3 - U.S. Petroleum Use by Sector: 1993-2003

Figure 14-3 - U.S. Petroleum Use by Sector: 1993-2003

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NOTE: 2003 data are estimates, except for utilities, which are preliminary.

SOURCE: USDOE, EIA, Annual Energy Review 2003, table 5.13a-d, available at http://...

U.S. International Trade in Transportation-Related Goods

U.S. International Trade in Transportation-Related Goods

The United States traded $329.9 billion worth (in current dollars1) of transportation-related goods (e.g., cars, trains, boats, and airplanes and their related parts) in 2004 with its partners (figure 11-2). Motor...