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Year Passenger car occupants Light-truck occupants Large-truck occupants Motorcycle riders General aviation Air carriers (actual and smoothed fatality rates)...Excel | CSV | Table Version
Notes: Air carrier data were smoothed using an exponential smoothing model, with a weight of 0.945 to reduce the year-to-year fluctuations. Air carrier fatalities resulting...
Front cover City bus - Marsha Fenn Airplane - Pavel Jedlicka Cargo ship - Elliott Linder Passenger rail - BTS Staff
Back cover Truck - BTS Staff Train - BTS Staff Pipeline - Kevin Abbott Freeway - James Lin
Bureau of Transportation...While transportation enhances the quality of our lives, it also generates environmental impacts that can lead to human health problems and environmental damage. Overall, most transportation air emissions in the United States, such as particulates, have...
Transportation is a major sector of the U.S. economy. It moves people and goods, employs millions of workers, generates revenue, and consumes resources and services produced by other sectors of the economy. In 2009, transportation related goods and services...
The U.S. transportation system makes possible a high degree of personal accessibility and freight activity. The data in this section show growth in travel and freight shipments over time. Factors influencing this growth include vehicle availability, travel costs,...
The U.S. transportation system is an extensive, interrelated public and private network of roads, airports, railroads, transit routes, waterways, terminals, ports, and pipelines. Millions of people and businesses rely on this expanding system to get to work, conduct...
The safety of the traveling public is the number one concern of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Although progress has been made in reducing fatalities, roughly 94 percent of transportation fatalities arose from motor vehicle crashes. Injuries from crashes are a major U.S....
Ray LaHood Secretary
John D. Porcari Deputy Secretary
Research and Innovative Technology AdministrationPeter H. Appel Administrator
Robert L. Bertini, Ph.D. Deputy Administrator
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 R2006 2007 Acres Impacted 2,041 1,905 1,942 1,278 847 1,...