Federal Subsidies to Passenger Transportation

The net flow of funds to and from the federal government for passenger transportation varies by mode and over time (figure 10-8). On average, transit received $5.1 billion (in chained 2000 dollars1) per year in net federal...

Figure 1-2 - Change in Passenger-Miles of Travel by Selected Mode: 1992-2002

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NOTES: For consistency, aviation passenger-miles of travel (pmt) includes air carrier aviation only, as general aviation pmt 2002 data were not available...

Transportation Energy Efficiency

Passenger travel was 4.7 percent more energy efficient in 2002 than in 1992 (figure 14-7). During the same period, however, freight energy efficiency declined by 2.2 percent.1

Improvements in domestic commercial aviation are the primary...

Figure 3-4 - Injury Rates for Occupants of Highway Vehicles and Motorcycles: 2003

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KEY: pmt = passenger-miles of travel.

NOTES: Bus and large-truck occupant injury rates for 1993–2003 are included in table 3-5 in...

Figure 6-3 - Transit Ridership by Selected Type of Servce: 1993-2003

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

Age of Rail, Aircraft, and Maritime Vessel Fleets

The average age of Amtrak locomotives and passenger train cars fluctuated in a narrow range for most of the 1990s (figure 2-12). The average age of locomotives was 14 years in fiscal year 2001, up 8 percent from 13 years in...

Amtrak Station Boardings

Amtrak ridership increased 18 percent, between fiscal years 1994 and 2004, from 21.2 million riders to 25.1 million riders [1, 4]. The number of riders in fiscal year 2004, about 68,800 per day on average, was the largest ever on the Amtrak system [2...

Figure 11-3 - U.S. Trade Balance In Transportation-Related Goods: 1994-2004

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NOTES: Transportation-related goods are motor vehicles and parts, aircraft and spacecraft and parts, railway vehicles and parts, and ships and boats. All...

Figure 1-3 - Change in Passenger-Miles of Travel, U.S. Population, and Gross Domestic Product (GDP): 1992-2002

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NOTES: For consistency, aviation passenger-miles of travel (pmt) includes air carrier aviation only, as general aviation pmt...

Figure 10-6 - Gross Government Investment in Transportation Infrastructure by Level of Government: 1991-2001

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NOTES: Investment data here are in terms of calendar years unlike the other data in section 10, which are in terms of fiscal...