General

Legacy ID

201

Moving Goods

With respect to the movement of 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...

Moving People

With respect to the movement of people:

All indicators show declines in personal travel for every age group, particularly among young people since the early 2000s. It is too soon to tell whether this decline is temporary or indicative of a long-term trend....

Physical Condition

With respect to the physical condition of the U.S. Transportation System:

The condition of the U.S. transportation infrastructure is improving, but additional work is needed. The percentage of structurally deficient bridges declined from 12.3 percent in 2007 to 11...

Recent Trends

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics compiles trends and other statistics in its online publication—National Transportation Statistics [USDOT BTS 2014].

Among the trends:

Lane-miles increased 0.4 percent between...

Overview

The transportation system of the United States connects 118.7 million households, 7.4 million business establishments, and 89 thousand governmental units with one another and the rest of the world through 4 million miles of roads, more than 19,000 public and private...

Glossary

Air carrier: Certificated provider of scheduled and nonscheduled services.

Chained dollars: A method to measure real changes in dollar values between years that uses chain-type indexes, rather than constant dollars. The method first calculates the real changes between...