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Chapter 3: Moving Goods

Box 3-A The Commodity Flow Survey and the Freight Analysis Framework Box 3-B: Hydraulic Fracturing and U.S. Oil and Gas Production Box 3-C: Panama Canal Expansion Figure 3-1 Freight Flows by Highway, Railroad, and Waterway: 2011 Figure 3-2 Ratio of Outbound to Inbound Shipments by Value: 2015...

Chapter 2: Moving People

Box 2-A Proximity of Bike-Share Stations to Public Transportation Box 2-B Transportation and Health Figure 2-1 Average Annual PMT per Household by Trip Purpose: NHTS 2009 Figure 2-2 Net Change in Number of Workers by Mode of Transportation: 2000 to 2014 Figure 2-3 Person Trips per Day by...

List of Boxes, Tables and Figures

Chapter 1: Extent and Physical Condition of the U.S. Transportation SystemChapter 2: Moving PeopleChapter 3: Moving GoodsChapter 4: Transportation System PerformanceChapter 5: Transportation EconomicsChapter 6: Transportation SafetyChapter 7: Transportation Energy Use and Environmental...

Appendix B Glossary

Air carrier: Certificated provider of scheduled and nonscheduled services.

Alternative fuel (vehicle): Nonconventional or advanced fuels or any materials or substances, such as biodiesel, electric charging, ethanol, natural gas, and hydrogen, that can be used in place of conventional fuels...

Appendix A Legislative Responsibilities Including Cross Reference

BTS compiles these and other statistics under Section 52011: Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law No. 112-141), which requires information on:

transportation safety across all modes and intermodally;

the state of good repair of United States transportation...

Chapter 8 The State of Transportation Statistics

HighlightsProgress is being made on quantifying the contributions of transportation to the economy and the uses of transportation by major industries.BTS is improving the frequency of updates to data on the extent and characteristics of transportation infrastructure, and has compiled a National...

Chapter 7 Transportation Energy Use and Environmental Impacts

Highlights

Despite transportation’s continued dependence on petroleum, recent trends show decreasing import dependence, small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and sharply reduced emissions of other air pollutants. U.S. dependence on imported oil decreased from a high of 60.3 percent in...

Chapter 6 Transportation Safety

HighlightsHighway motor vehicle fatalities rose 7.2 percent in 2015 as the 35,092 highway deaths alone exceeded the 2014 number for all transportation fatalities (34,641).Fifteen highway rail crossings were identified as having 10 or more incidents (not necessarily involving fatalities) in the last...

Chapter 5 Transportation Economics

HighlightsThe demand for transportation increased by 4.2 percent from 2013 to 2014, marking the highest annual growth since the end of the December 2007 to June 2009 economic recession. The demand for transportation in 2014 exceeded 2007 for the first time since the end of the 2007 to 2009...