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Year Number of hijackings: United States Number of hijackings: Foreign 1970 25 49 1971 25 30 1972 26 30 1973 2 20 1974 3 17 1975 6 13 1976 2 14 1977...Excel | CSV | Graphic Version
Year Passenger car occupants Light truck occupants Large truck occupants Motorcycle riders Air carriersa General aviation Fatalities VMT (millions) Fatality Rate Per 100 million VMT...Excel | CSV | Table Version
a For air carriers, the data were dampened, or smoothed, to reduce the month-to-month fluctuations. This dampening was performed using an exponential smoothing model, with a weight of 0.95....
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Year Total fatalities Fatalities in alcohol related-crashes 1985 43,825 22,716 1990 44,599 22,085 1991 41,508 19,887 1992 39,250 17,859 1993 40,150 17,473 1994 40,...Excel | CSV | Table Version
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway TrafficSafety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis,Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database,...
Statistics published in this Pocket Guide to Transportation come from many different sources. Some statistics are based on samples and are subject to sampling variability. Statistics may also be subject to omissions and errors in reporting, recording, and processing.
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Serious energy and environmental issues are associated with transportation. The U.S. transportation sector remains almost entirely dependent on petroleum as an energy source and more than 50 percent of the petroleum used in the United...
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 2000, transportation-related goods and...
The U.S. transportation network makes possible a high degree of personal mobility and freight activity. In 1999, the transportation network supported 4.8 trillion passenger-miles and about 3.9 trillion ton-miles. The data in this section show growth in local and long-...