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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...Chapter 2: Physical Condition of the U.S. Transportation System
TABLE 2-1 Condition of U.S. Roadways by Functional System: 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011 TABLE 2-2 Condition and Average Daily Traffic (ADT) of U.S. Highway Bridges: 2002, 2007, and 2012 FIGURE 2-1 Bridge Condition by Age Group: 2011 TABLE 2-3 Average Age of Light-Duty Vehicles...TABLE 1-2 Value of Construction Put in Place: 2005 ̶ 2012
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Private transportation construction 7,124 8,654 9,009...FIGURE 1-7 Freight and Passenger Transportation Services Index: January 1990 - December 2013
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SOURCE: TSI: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Services Index (Updated monthly), available at www.bts.gov as of April 2014. Recession Dates: National Bureau of Economic Research, U.S....