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Spending on building, maintaining, operating, and administering the nation’s transportation system by all levels of government totaled $149.0 billion in 2000 (in chained 1996 dollars1). The federal government spent 30 percent of the funds; state...
The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century1 charged the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) with compiling, analyzing, and publishing a comprehensive set of transportation statistics, including information on:
productivity in various parts of the...Transit service1 interruptions due to mechanical failures remained relatively level from 1995 through 2000,2 averaging between 18 and 19 mechanical problems per 100,000 revenue vehicle-miles [1, 2] (figure 57).
Among transit vehicles, buses and light rail...
There were 45,130 fatalities related to transportation in 2001, almost 16 fatalities per 100,000 U.S. residents [1, 2, 3, 5]. This is a decline of 11 percent from 18 fatalities per 100,000 residents in 1991, when there were 44,320 fatalities. Nearly 93 percent...
Airport runway conditions improved at the nation’s major public-use airports between 1990 and 2001 [1]. At the nation’s commercial service airports, pavement in poor condition declined from 5 percent of runways in 1990 to 2 percent in 2001 (figure 88)....
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NOTES: Weight is the empty weight of the vehicle plus the average vehicle load.
Excludes vehicles owned by federal, state, or local...
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KEY: N = data are nonexistent; NPIAS = National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of...
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NOTE: Miscellaneous mixed shipments is mostly intermodal traffic. Some intermodal traffic is included in commodity-specific categories...
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NOTE: Current dollar data are available in table 114 in appendix B and were adjusted using a chain-type index...
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Office of Freight Management and Operations, Operations Core Business Unit, Freight Analysis Framework (FAF).