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NOTES: Air includes commercial and general aviation. Waterborne includes commercial and recreational vessels. See...
The United States truck fleet grew 23 percent between 1992 and 1997, according to the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey conducted once every five years [1, 2]. The fleet includes a variety of vehicles, ranging from large 18-wheel combination trucks used to transport...
NOTE: The thinnest lines shown in the oceans represent routes on the domestic waterborne freight network, not tonnage flowing on those routes.
SOURCE: U.S....
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SOURCES: Passenger-miles, ton-miles, and energy use (unless otherwise noted)—U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of...
Each year a far larger number of people are injured than killed in transportation-related accidents. An estimated 3.1 million people suffered some kind of injury involving passenger and freight transportation in 2001 (see box). Most of these injuries, about 98...
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Hazardous Materials Information System (HMIS) is the primary source of national data on hazardous materials transportation safety. Hazardous materials, as defined in...
Amtrak collected an average of 20¢ per revenue passenger-mile in fiscal year (FY) 2000 (in chained 1996 dollars1), up 33 percent from 15¢ per revenue passenger-mile in FY 19932 (figure 35). During the 1990s, Amtrak shifted its focus to urban...
Each transportation mode tends to define injury differently. In addition, each mode may generate its injury data using different methods. Therefore, comparisons across modes should be viewed very carefully. For further information on modal injury...
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002...
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Policy, personal communication, August 2003.