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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...

Appendix A Legislative Responsibilities, including Cross Reference

BTS compiles these and other statistics under Section 52011: Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Public Law No. 112-141), which requires information on:

transportation safety across all modes and intermodally; the state of good repair of United States...

Chapter 7 Transportation Safety

Transportation safety has been improving in recent decades, averaging 36 fewer fatalities and 2,830 fewer injuries per day in 2011 than in 1990. Over 94 percent of transportation fatalities and more than 99 percent of transportation injuries involved highway motor...