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Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The transportation sector's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions totaled 1,864 teragrams of carbon dioxide equivalent (TgCO2Eq) in 2003.1 This represented 27 percent of total U.S. GHG emissions in 2003 (box 15-B). Transportation emissions grew 20 percent since...

Figure 1-23 - Change in Transit Rail Vehicle-Miles: 1993-2003

Figure 1-23 - Change in Transit Rail Vehicle-Miles: 1993-2003

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NOTES: Light trucks include sport utility vehicles, minivans, and pickup trucks. See Glossary for definitions of transit rail service types. To make it easier to compare...

Figure 4-1 - Daily Trip-Miles by Mode: 2001

Figure 4-1 - Daily Trip-Miles by Mode: 2001

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NOTE: Excludes trips where mode was not reported. Other includes charter/tour/intercity bus; taxi, limousine, hotel/airport shuttle bus; intercity train; and other not elsewhere classified...

Merchant Marine Vessel Capacity

Merchant Marine Vessel Capacity

The average capacity of all vessels calling at U.S. ports grew 9 percent between 1998 and 2003 to 49,557 deadweight tons (dwt)1 per call, while the number of all vessel calls increased by only 1 percent [3]. The value of U.S....

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...