BOX 11-A - Components of Service Trade

Exports of freight transportation services occur when a U.S. carrier receives payments from a foreign company or individual for transporting merchandise. Imports of freight transportation services occur when a U.S....

Figure 2-12 - Average Age of Amtrak Locomotive and Car Fleets: Fiscal Years 1991-2001

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SOURCES: U.S. ­Department of Transportation (USDOT), Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics...

Figure 5-3 - Average Daytime Wait Times for Commerical Vehicles at Selected U.S.-Canada Surface Border Gateways: 2004

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NOTES: Wait times for commerical and personal vehicles are recorded hourly. Daytime hours (between 8:00 am and 6:00...

BOX 5-B - Airline Service Quality ­Performance (ASQP) Data and Air Travel Time Indexes

To calculate these indexes, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics used ASQP data that airlines report monthly on both scheduled and actual flight times (based on gate-departure and gate-...

Long-Distance Travel by Women

People in the United States took 2.6 billion long-distance trips1 covering 1.4 trillion miles in 2001. Females made 43 percent of these trips (1.1 billion) while males made 57 percent of them (1.5 billion). Adult females (18 and over...

Figure 10-9 - Net Federal Subsidies to Passenger Transportation by Mode: Fiscal Years 1992-2002

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NOTES: Net federal subsidy is estimated as federal outlays minus federal receipts from transportation taxes and user fees. Actual outlays...

Figure 7-4 - Average Class I Intercity Bus Fare: 1992-2002

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NOTE: To eliminate the effects of inflation over time, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics converted current dollars (see table 7-4 in appendix B) to chained 2000 dollars...

U.S. Air Carrier On-Time Performance

About 78 percent of domestic air carrier scheduled flights arrived on time in 2004, compared with 79 percent in 1995. The number of on-time flights peaked in 2002 and 2003 (82 percent), after a low of 73 percent in 2000. The number of...

Figure 2-3 - Rural Roads in Poor or Mediocre Condition by Functional Class: 1993-2003

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NOTES: Data are for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The terms poor and mediocre as used here are Federal Highway Administration...

Figure 3-11 - General and Commercial Aviation Fatalities per 100,000 Hours Flown: 1994-2004

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NOTES: 2004 data are preliminary. General aviation includes any civil aircraft operation that is not covered under 14 Code of Federal...