Looking Ahead: What More Do We Need to Know?

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...

Two Decades of Change in the Development and Dissemination of Transportation Statistics

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...

Changes in the Consequences of Transportation

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...

Changes in Transportation Costs and Spending

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)...

Changes in the Transportation System

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...

Changes in the Demand for Transportation

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...

Two Decades of Change in Transportation

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...

Introduction

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provides information to support understanding and decision-making related to the transportation system, including the size and extent of the system, how it is used, how well it works, and its contributions and consequences for the...

Quality Assurance Statement

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provides high quality information to serve government, industry, and the public in a manner that promotes public understanding. Standards and policies are used to ensure and maximize the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of its...

Acknowledgments

Anthony Foxx Secretary of Transportation

Victor Mendez Deputy Secretary of Transportation

Gregory Winfree Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Patricia Hu Director

Rolf Schmitt Deputy Director...