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Age of Highway and Transit Fleet Vehicles

Age of Highway and Transit Fleet Vehicles

The median age of the automobile fleet in the United States increased, by 19 percent, from 7.5 years in 1994 to 8.9 years in 2004. The median age of the truck fleet,1 by contrast, began to increase in the early 1990s but has...

Urban Highway Travel Times

Urban Highway Travel Times

Highway travel times increased between 1993 and 2003 in all but 2 of the 85 urban areas studied by the Texas Transportation Institute. The average Travel Time Index (TTI) for the 85 areas in 2003 was 1.37, an increase from 1.28 in 1993 [2]. This...

Oil Spills into U.S. Waters

Oil Spills into U.S. Waters

Transportation-related sources account for most oil reported spilled into U.S. waters each year1 (box 15-C). The volume of each spill varies significantly from incident to incident: one catastrophic incident can spill millions of gallons...