Table 8-4 Statistics on Transportation’s Role in the Economy

Transportation capital stocks

Table 8-3 Transportation Statistics on Freight Movement

Table 8-2 Transportation Statistics on Passenger Travel

Intercity and International Travel

Table 8-1 Statistics on the Extent, Use, Condition, and Performance of the Transportation System

Extent of and geo- graphic access to the transportation system

Figure 7-18 Leaking Underground Storage Tank Releases and Cleanup: 1990-2015

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NOTES: All data are cumulative from the start of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Underground Storage Tank program, which began in 1984.

Data represent fiscal year, October 1 through September 30.

Box 7-A Environmental Challenges Associated With Marine Transportation

According to the Freight Analysis Framework, the water mode moved more than 1 billion tons of goods valued at $831 billion in 2015, accounting for 5.7 percent of the weight and 4.3 percent of the value of all domestic freight shipments [USDOT FHWA and BTS 2016]. Marine transport of this...

Figure 7-17 Petroleum Spills Impacting Navigable Waterways: 1985, 1990, and 1995-2015

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NOTES: The spike in Gallons spilled for 2005 can be attributed to the passage of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi on Aug. 29, 2005, which caused numerous spills approximating 8 million gallons of oil in U.S. waters. The...

Figure 7-16 Air Quality Index for 169 U.S. Cities: 2000 and 2015

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NOTES: Based on number of days in the year in which an AQI mesasurement was reported from any monitoring site in the county or Metropolican Staistical Area to the Air Quality Statistics database. # Days Good: number of days in the year...

Figure 7-15 Indexes of Key Air Pollutant Emissions from U.S. Transportation: 1990-2014

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SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Emissions Inventory Air Pollutant Emissions Trends Data, 1970-2014, Average Annual Emissions All Criteria Pollutants, Available at https://www.epa.gov/air-emissions-inventories/air-...

Figure 7-14 Highway Vehicle Fuel Use and Travel: 2014-Projected to 2040

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KEY: VMT = Vehicle-miles Travelled.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2015. Reference Case table 7. Available at http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/ as of April...