Figure 6-7 - Transit Rail Stations that are ADA-Compliant by Service Type: 1993-2003

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KEY: ADA = Americans with Disabilities Act.

SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Transit Administration (FTA...

BOX 6-A - National Transit Data

A large amount of transit data including the number of passenger-miles of travel (pmt) are available from both the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). FTA's National Transit Database (NTD) is...

Transportation Injury Rates

Each year a far larger number of people are injured than killed in transportation-related accidents. Over 2.9 million people suffered some kind of injury involving passenger and freight transportation in 2003 (box 3-B). Most of these injuries, 99...

Box 15-D - Hazardous Materials Reporting

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Hazardous Materials Information System (HMIS) is the primary source of national data on hazardous materials transportation safety. Hazardous materials, as defined in regulations, include nine...

Figure 6-4 - Detail of Commuter-Rail and Light-Rail Transit Ridership: 1993-2003

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SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Summaries and Trends, annual reports, available at http://www....

Cost of Intercity Trips by Train and Bus

Amtrak collected an average of 23 per revenue passenger-mile in 2003 (in chained 2000 dollars1), up 46 percent from 16 per revenue passenger-mile in 1993 (figure 7-3). During the 1990s, Amtrak shifted its focus to urban routes in the...

Figure 10-1 - Federal, State, and Local Government Transportation Revenues: Fiscal Years 1991-2001

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NOTE: To eliminate the effects of inflation over time, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics converted current dollars (see table 10...

Figure 6-2 - Detail of Transit Passenger-Miles by Selected 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.

Figure 5-13 - Rail Freight Revenue Ton-Miles: 1999-2005

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NOTES: Data cover Class I railroads only (see Glossary for definition). Average line-haul speed data for 2004 and 2005 are preliminary.

SOURCE: STB, Quarterly...

Figure 1-22 - Change in Freight and Passenger Train-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...