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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

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Appendix A Table–Legislative Responsibilities, including Cross Reference

BTS compiles these and other statistics under Section 52011: Moving Ahead for Progress in the21st Century Act (Public Law No. 112-141), which requires...

Chapter 8: The State of Transportation Statistics

PDF:  Chapter 8: The State of Transportation Statistics Highlights Extensive data are available on local passenger travel and most long-distance freight movement, but data gaps exist for long-distance travel, domestic movement of international trade, and local...

Chapter 7: Transportation Energy Use and Environmental Impacts

PDF:  Chapter 7: Transportation Energy Use and Environmental Impacts Highlights Despite transportation’s continued dependence on petroleum, recent trends show decreasing import dependence, sharply reduced emissions of air pollutants, and small reductions in...

Chapter 6: Transportation Safety

PDF:  Chapter 6: Transportation Safety Highlights In 2013, on average, about 95 people were killed and nearly 6,400 people injured per day in transportation-related crashes. Transportation safety has been improving in recent decades, averaging 27 fewer...

Chapter 5: Transportation Economics

PDF:  Chapter 5: Transportation Economics Highlights Total spending on transportation fell in 2008 after the onset of the 2007–2009 economic recession, returning in 2014 to the pre- recession level. In total, the public and private sectors spent $125.7...

Chapter 4: Transportation System Performance

PDF:  Chapter 4: Transportation System Performance Highlights The average annual delay per commuter rose from 26 hours in 1990 to 42 hours in 2014—a 62 percent increase. The total number of hours of delay experienced by all commuters across the Nation reached...

Chapter 3: Moving Goods

PDF:  Chapter 3: Moving Goods Highlights The U.S. freight transportation system moved 55.0 million tons of goods valued at more than $49.3 billion each day in 2013—about 63.4 tons of freight per capita per year. This was an increase of 2.0 percent from 2012...

Chapter 2: Moving People

PDF:  Chapter 2: Moving People Highlights In 2013 total domestic person-miles of travel was about 4.7 trillion. Nearly four- fifths of person-miles was in cars or other personal vehicles, while domestic air travel accounted for 11 percent. In 2013 person-...