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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...

Chapter 4 Transportation System Performance

HighlightsThe average annual delay per commuter rose from 37 hours in 2000 to 42 hours in 2014, a 13.5 percent increase, and the combined hours of delay experienced by all commuters across the Nation in 2014 reached 6.9 billion hours—about a third higher than the 2000 total.Urban highway congestion...

Chapter 3 Moving Goods

HighlightsIn 2015 freight tonnage and value rose by 6.5 and 8.2 percent, respectively, over 2012 levels, fully rebounding from declines during the December 2007–June 2009 economic recession.The U.S. freight transportation system moved 49.5 million tons of goods valued at more than $52.7 billion...

Chapter 2 Moving People

HighlightsIn 2014 U.S. person-miles of travel (including air travel to, from, and within the United States) totaled about 5.4 trillion—an increase of over 100 billion miles from 2013. About 70 percent of these travel-miles was in cars and other personal vehicles, while air travel accounted for 23...

Introduction

The Transportation Statistics Annual Report describes the Nation’s transportation system, the system’s performance, its contributions to the economy, and its effects on people and the environment. This 21st edition of the report is based on information collected or compiled by the Bureau of...

Quality Assurance Statement

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provides high quality information to serve government, industry, and the public in a manner that promotes public understanding. Standards and policies are used to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of its information...

Acknowledgements

Anthony FoxxSecretary of Transportation

Victor MendezDeputy Secretary of Transportation

Gregory WinfreeAssistant Secretary for Research and Technology

Sophie ShulmanDeputy Assistant Secretary forResearch and Technology

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Patricia...