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Rail Fatalities

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Monthly data, not seasonally adjusted

Improving safety is the top priority of the United States Department of Transportation. The number of railroad deaths (excluding public highway crossings) continues a downward trend. For the five-year period of 2003-2007...

Air Fatalities

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Monthly data, not seasonally adjusted

Improved safety is the foremost goal of the United States Department of Transportation. The Federal Aviation Administration regulates safety, and the National Transportation Safety Board (independent of the U.S. DOT) leads...

Highway Fatalities

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Quarterly data

Improved safety is the foremost goal of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and highway fatalities accounted for 94% of all transportation fatalities in 2011. (BTS, National Transportation Statistics) Motor vehicle fatalities were the leading...

Safety

Highway Fatalities Air Fatalities Rail Fatalities

References

Air Transport Association. Airline Industry Taxes and Fees, Airlines for America, Washington, DC. Obtained from: http://www.airlines.org/Pages/Econ_Aviation_Economy.aspx, as of May 2014.

Office of Management and Budget. (2012). Budget of the United States Government: Browse,...

Appendix B. Data Sources

This appendix presents data sources by mode and level of government. Tables B-1 and B-2 list data sources for transportation revenue and expenditure, respectively, by mode and by level of government.

Table B-1. Data sources and methods for transportation revenue....

5. Glossary

Capital expenditure: Capital expenditure includes outlays for adding new equipment and structures and for improving or enhancing the capacity and quality of the existing equipment and structures if the improvements last for more than 1 year. Capital expenditure enhances the capacity and...

4. Data Related Issues

4.1 Current Versus Constant Dollars

GTFS includes revenue and expenditure statistics expressed in current and constant dollars. The statistics in current dollars are converted to the 2009 constant dollars by using the chained-dollar price index. Chained-dollar (or constant dollar)...