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2-6 Commute Mode Share: 2015

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percent of workers age 16 and older

a Includes motorcycle, taxi, and other means.

Notes: Percents may not add to 100 due to rounding. The American Community Survey asks for the mode usually used by the respondent to get to...

2-4 Transit Ridership: 1970–2014

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Note: Includes bus, commuter rail, demand response, heavy rail, light rail, trolley bus, ferry boat, aerial tramway, automated guideway, cable car, inclined plane, monorail, and other.

Source: American Public...

2-2 Highway Travel: 1970–2014

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Note: Data for 2007 and later years may not be comparable to previous years due to changes in methodology.

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics, available at...

2 Moving People

The U.S. transportation system makes personal mobility possible. Every day people use the transportation system to get to and from work, school, and shopping and for recreation, social, and personal purposes.

2-1 Vehicle-Miles Traveled 2-2 Highway Travel: 1970–2014 2-3 Passenger-Miles...

Moving People: January 2000–July 2016

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Notes: Graph scales are not comparable. Seasonally adjusted data measure the real differences in data trends by adjusting for seasonal factors, such as the change in the number of days, weekends, holidays, or other seasonal...

Moving Goods: January 2000–August 2016

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Notes: Graph scales are not comparable. Rail Freight Intermodal–Rail intermodal traffic includes shipping containers and truck trailers moved on rail cars. U.S. Waterways Freight–Includes tonnage carried on internal U.S....