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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...
The first Transportation Statistics Annual Report reflected a half-century of growth in the demand for travel, while the last edition reflected stagnation in travel demand over the past half decade (figure 1). The last edition also examined whether recent stagnation of demand is due to...
While the 1994 and the latest editions of the Transportation Statistics Annual Report have different chapter titles and structure, they cover the same basic set of topics: extent, use, condition, and performance of the system; economic aspects of transportation; safety; energy and the...