Box 6-B Fatality Reporting

There are two major sources for national reporting of transportation fatalities, most notably for highway fatalities—the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control’s National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and the U.S. Department of Transportation...

Figure 6-2 Fatality Rates for Select Modes of Transportation: 1990–2013

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NOTES: Air carrier fatalities resulting from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist acts include only onboard fatalities. Nonoccupant includes pedestrians and riders of nonmotorized bicycles and other pedal-powered vehicles and is measured on a per...

Figure 6-1 Licensed Drivers, Resident Population, Highway Fatalities, Highway Vehicle-miles Travelled (VMT): 2000-2013

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SOURCE: Drivers and Resident Population: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics 2013, tables DL-1C and MV-1, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2013 as of June 2015....

Table 6-1 Transportation Fatalities by Mode: 2000, 2010-2013

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Chapter 6: Transportation Safety

Figure 5-15 Average Cost of Owning and Operating an Automobilea (Assuming 15,000 Vehicle-Miles per Year): 1990-2013

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SOURCE

American Automobile Association, Your Driving Costs (Heathrow, FL: Annual Issues), available at http://www.aaapublicaffairs.com as of September 2014.

Figure 5-14 Average Changes to Transportation Prices Faced by Businesses

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NOTE: Annual averages. Rebased to 2004.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index Industry Data, available at http://www.bls.gov/data/#productivity as of April 2015.

Figure 5-13 Sales Price of Transportation Fuel to End-Users (Dollars / gallon)

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KEY: U = data unavailable; R = revised.

a Sales to end-users (those sales made directly to the ultimate consumer, including bulk customers in agriculture, industry, and utility).

b Average retail...

Figure 5-12 Average Change in Prices Faced by Transportation Providers in Purchasing Transportation Equipment

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NOTE: Annual averages. Rebased to 2004.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index Industry Data, available at http://www.bls.gov/data/#productivity as of April 2015.

Table 5-6. Government Transportation Revenues: 2000, 2007-2012

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(Millions of current dollars)