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AIRCRAFT CAPACITY UTILIZATION - PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT

AIRCRAFT CAPACITY UTILIZATION - PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT Domestic Aircraft Revenue Load Factors (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

Aircraft load factors are used to measure aircraft in-flight capacity utilization.

Revenue Load Factors (percent) May-00 May-01...

AIR FARES AND PASSENGER VOLUME FOR THE TOP FIVE MAJOR LONG ROUTES

AIR FARES AND PASSENGER VOLUME FOR THE TOP FIVE MAJOR LONG ROUTES Average and Low Air Fares: Most Heavily Travelled Routes of Greater Than 750 Miles (quarterly data, not seasonally adjusted)

NOTE: Blue hatched portion of bar = lowest average fare for an airline...

Transportation Indicators

Transportation Indicators

NOTE: The final issue of this report was December 2002. These reports are provided as a historical reference. A minimal number of indicators are being updated in the White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room.

Due to quality...

U.S. CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS

U.S. CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Use by Sector (annual data)

MMTC = million metric tons of carbon

Tons of carbon can be converted to tons of carbon dioxide by multiplying by 3.667.

Carbon dioxide...

TRANSPORTATION ENERGY USE PER DOLLAR OF GDP

TRANSPORTATION ENERGY USE PER DOLLAR OF GDP Transportation Energy Use Per Dollar of GDP (quarterly data, not seasonally adjusted)

BTU - British Thermal Unit  

The average heat content of motor gasoline is 129,024 BTU per gallon. One quadrillion BTU is...

TRANSPORTATION ENERGY USE

TRANSPORTATION ENERGY USE Transportation Energy Consumption (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

Transportation accounts for about 28 percent of U.S. energy consumption. Petroleum accounts for nearly all (about 97 percent) of the transportation sectors energy use. Petroleum...

CRUDE OIL AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SPILLS IN U.S. WATERS

CRUDE OIL AND PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SPILLS IN U.S. WATERS Reported Spills of Petroleum and Petroleum Products into U.S. Waters (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)

NOTE: The spike in 1990 was caused by one tanker spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Crude...

AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORTATION

AIR POLLUTANT EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORTATION Index of Key Air Pollutant Emissions from Transportation (annual data)

Modal Shares of Key Air Pollutants from Transportation, 1998

Despite rapid growth in vehicle use over the past two decades, emissions of carbon monoxide (...

Transportation Indicators

Transportation Indicators

NOTE: The final issue of this report was December 2002. These reports are provided as a historical reference. A minimal number of indicators are being updated in the White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room.

Due to quality...