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Chapter 5 Transportation System Performance
The average annual delay per commuter rose from 32 hours in 1990 to 38 hours in 2011—a 19 percent increase. The total number of hours of delay experienced by all commuters across the Nation reached 5.5 billion hours in 2011—more than twice the 1990 total...Chapter 8 Energy and Environment
Transportation relies almost entirely on petroleum to move people and goods. Recent trends, however, show decreasing transportation dependence on imported oil, primarily due to the introduction of domestically produced ethanol in gasoline and increased domestic oil production...Chapter 5 Transportation System Performance
BOX 5-A MAP-21 Emphasis on Performance-Based Decision Making FIGURE 5-1 Number of Jobs Accessible by Commute Time: 1990, 2000, and 2010 BOX 5-B System Performance User’s v. Operator’s Perspectives TABLE 5-1 Annual Congestion Delay and Costs: 1990, 1995, 2000, & 2005-2011 FIGURE 5-2...Chapter 4 Moving Goods
In 2012 the Nation's freight system moved 53.9 million tons of goods worth $47.5 billion each day—about 62.6 tons of freight per capita per year. Trucks carried the largest share of freight shipments moving less than 500 miles from point of origin. Railroads...BOX 4-B Bakken Formation
The oil-rich Bakken formation stretches across western North Dakota and northeastern Montana and into the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Figure 4-3 shows the U.S. geographic region and the major highways and railroad lines that support exploration in this region. In 2013...
BOX 4-A The Commodity Flow Survey and the Freight Analysis Framework
The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is conducted every 5 years (specifically in the years ending in 2 and 7) by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau as part of the Economic Census. The CFS provides data for most of the U.S. economy on...
Chapter 4 Moving Goods
TABLE 4-1 Weight and Value of Shipments by Transportation Mode: 2007, 2012, and 2040(1) BOX 4-A The Commodity Flow Survey and the Freight Analysis Framework FIGURE 4-1 Value, Tonnage, and Ton-Miles of Freight by Distance, 2007 FIGURE 4-2 Freight Flows by Highway, Railroad, and Waterway: 2010...FIGURE 2-2 Average Age of U.S. Commercial Aircraft: 2006 - 2011
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NOTES: Large Certificated Air Carriers have one or more airframes designed to occupy a maximum passenger capacity of 60 seats or a maximum payload capacity of 18,000 pounds) as stated in 14 CFR Part 141 Sec 03. Average aircraft age is...
FIGURE 2-1 Bridge Condition by Age Group: 2011
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Years Old (as of 12/31/2011) 0-24 25-49 50-74 75-99 >99 Total Bridges 179,777 220,266 133,613 59,677...