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Legacy ID
201

Transportation Energy Use and Environmental Impacts

 

Despite transportation’s continued dependence on petroleum, recent trends show decreasing import dependence, sharply reduced emissions of air pollutants, and small reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. U.S. dependence on imported oil decreased from a high of 60.3...

Transportation Safety

 

In 2013, on average, throughout the United States about 95 people were killed and nearly 6,400 people were injured each day in transportation-related crashes. Transportation safety has been improving in recent decades, averaging 27 fewer fatalities and nearly 2,400...

Transportation Economics

  Total spending on transportation fell in 2008 after the onset of the 2007–2009 economic recession and returned to the pre-recession level in 2014. In total, the public and private sectors spent $125.7 billion on transportation construction in 2014. The...

Transportation System Performance

 

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 6.9 billion hours in 2014—more than twice the 1990 total...