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Airport runway conditions stayed about the same at the nation's major public-use airports (box 2-B) between 1997 and 20041 [1, 2]. At the nation's commercial service airports, pavement in poor condition remained at 2 percent from 1997 through 2004...
Most recently, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has gathered three datasets on freight ton-miles. Here, BTS compiled the data from a variety of modal and other sources to produce annual trend data (see table 1-9b in...
The 2001 NHTS was sponsored by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Highway Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Households were asked about all the trips1 they took on a specific...
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NOTES:Unless otherwise noted, data include only privately owned capital stock. Consumer motor vehicles are considered consumer durable goods. In-house...
There were approximately 312 million passenger crossings into the United States by land from Canada and Mexico in 2004, an increase of 2.5 percent from the 304 million crossings in 19951 [1]. These crossings were made in personal vehicles, buses,...
All modes of freight transportation, combined, generated 4.4 trillion domestic ton-miles in 2002, 18 percent more than in 1992 (box 1-B). This represents a growth rate of 1.7 percent per year during the period.
Domestic ton-miles for all...
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NOTE: Excludes trips where mode was not reported. Other includes watercraft (e.g., ship, ferry, and motorboat); taxi, limousine, and hotel/airport shuttle; bicycle and walking; and...
The geography of freight flows by mode is determined, for the most part, by the distribution of population and industry and availability of transportation infrastructure. The effect of transportation infrastructure is especially pronounced...
The United States had relatively lower prices for transportation goods and services in 20011 than did 9 out of 24 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries (figure 11-1). However, the...
There were 3,045 collisions between trains and highway users in 2004, of which 319 involved at least one fatality (figure 3-9). These 319 fatal accidents resulted in 368 fatalities, 41 percent of the 896 rail-related fatalities in 20041...