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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...

Chapter 6 Transportation Economics

Personal, business, and government purchases of transportation goods and services accounted for nearly 8.6 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product in 2012. Transportation and related sectors employed over 11.7 million workers in 2012, representing 8.8 percent of the...

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...