Vehicle Loadings on the Interstate Highway System

Large combination trucks1 made up only 5 percent of traffic volume in urban areas, but accounted for 76 percent of loadings in 2003 (figure 13-3). On rural segments of the Interstate Highway System, these trucks represented...

Figure 15-2 - Selected Air Pollutants by Mode: 2002

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NOTES: EPA no longer estimates lead emissions. Modal shares in 2000 were: highway gasoline vehicles, 4.1%; aircraft, 95.9%. Other includes recreational boats, airport service...

Motor Vehicle-Related Injuries

There were an estimated 3.6 million motor vehicle-related injuries in the United States in 2003, according to data reported to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)1 (box 3-C) [1]. An estimated 3.3 million of these injuries...

Transit Ridership by Transit Authority

Approximately 78 percent of all unlinked transit passenger trips in 2003 were made within the service area of just 30 transit authorities [1]. These 30 top authorities logged 6.9 billion unlinked trips in 20031 (figure 6-5). New York City...

Figure 2-7 - Urban Bridge Condition by Functional Class: 2003

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NOTES: Functionally obsolete refers to bridges that do not have the lane widths, shoulder widths, or vertical clearances adequate to serve traffic demand or bridges that...

Government Transportation Investment

Gross government transportation investment,1 including infrastructure and vehicles, increased steadily over the last decade. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics estimates that total gross government transportation investment reached $88.8...

Figure 6-1 - Transit Passenger-Miles by Type of Service: 1993-2003

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NOTE: Other includes modes such as automated guideway, Alaska Railroad, cable car, ferryboat, inclined plane, monorail, trolleybus, and vanpool.

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Figure 4-15 - Long-Distance Trips by Gender and Age: 2001

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SOURCE: Jonaki Bose, Lee Giesbrecht, Joy Sharp, Jeffery Memmott, Maha Khan, and Elizabeth Roberto, “A Picture of Long-Distance Travel Behavior of Americans Through...

Figure 13-8 - Average Loaded U.S. Railcar Weight for Selected Commodities: 1993 and 2003

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NOTES: Miscellaneous mixed shipments is mostly intermodal traffic. Some intermodal traffic is included in commodity specific categories as well....

Figure 14-2 - Change in Transportation Sector Energy Use and Gross Domestic Product: 1994-2004

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KEY: GDP = Gross Domestic Product (in chained 2000 dollars).

NOTE: To make it easier to compare data of differing...