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NOTES: Data for 2007 and later years are not comparable to previous years due to changes in methodology.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics, VM-1, available at...
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NOTES: 1993 Population Estimates uses 1990 base. 2013 Population Estimates uses 2010 base. Population Estimates by single year of age includes 2013—latest data available (as of May 2015).
SOURCES: 1993: U.S....
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KEY: NHTS = National Household Travel Survey; NPTS = Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey.
SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Summary Statistics on...
American Bureau of Shipping (ABS). Maren Mærsk. Public Records. Available at http://www.eagle.org/ as of May 2015.
Committee for the Marine Transportation System. A 10-Year Projection Of Maritime Activity in the U.S. Arctic Region: Executive Summary (Jan. 26, 2015). Available...
The Transportation Statistics Annual Report asks the question: what more do we need to know? Desired additional information enumerated in 1994 included:
A meaningful, comprehensive set of performance indicators for the transportation system as a whole to identify needs and...
Congress required that the Transportation Statistics Annual Report include an assessment of the quality of statistics used in the report and a summary of efforts by BTS to improve transportation information. BTS published the first Transportation Statistics Annual Report one year after the...
Safety on the transportation system has continued to improve since the 1994 Transportation Statistics Annual Report. Fatalities have declined for the major modes of transportation even as the population continued to grow. Fatalities in smaller categories, such as bus occupants and...
The 1994 Transportation Statistics Annual Report painted a picture of increasing costs and spending related to transportation, but not enough to change transportation as a share of the economy or impact consumer spending. In more recent times, the portion of gross domestic product (GDP)...
The physical extent of the Nation’s transportation infrastructure has changed little in two decades. Public road and street mileage increased nearly three-tenths of a percent per year while vehicle-miles of travel grew 1.3 percent per year between 1993 and 2013; the total number of...