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Box 7-A Diesel-powered Automobiles
Diesel-powered automobiles have been making the headlines following emission concerns raised by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (see the recent letter on these issues at: http://www3.epa.gov/). Diesel vehicles are a small percentage of the Nation’s motor vehicle fleet,...
Box 6-A Fatality Definition by Mode
Mode (Source) Definition Citation Air Fatal injury means any injury which results in death within 30 days of the accident. 49 CFR 830.2 Hazardous Material Fatalities must be reported as...Box 5-B Transportation Services Index (TSI)
The Transportation Services Index (TSI), produced by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), measures the movement of freight and passengers. The index combines seasonally adjusted data on freight and passenger travel, which have been weighted...
Figure 7-18 Leaking Underground Storage Tank Releases and Cleanup: 1990-2014
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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.
...Figure 7-17 Petroleum Spills Impacting Navigable Waterways: 1985, 1990, and 1995-2014
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Figure 7-16 Air Quality Index for 169 U.S. Cities: 1990 and 2014
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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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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 June...
Figure 7-13 Transportation Energy Use: 2014-Projected to 2040
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Annual Energy Outlook 2015. Transportation Sector Energy Use by Mode and Type. Available at http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/ as of June 2015.