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On average, households spent $7,406 (in chained 1996 dollars1) on transportation in 2001. This represented 21 percent of all household expenditures that year. Only housing cost households more (31 percent) [1].
Over the last 10 years,...
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NOTES: Total includes other modes not shown, such as ferryboats, demand responsive, inclined planes, and trolley buses. See the Glossary for definitions...
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NOTES: Investment in transportation infrastructure includes the purchase or construction value of transportation...
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NOTES: Federal expenditures from own funds consists of outlays of the federal...
Estimated passenger-miles of travel (pmt) in the United States increased 24 percent between 1990 and 2000 (see box). Pmt totaled an estimated 4.7 trillion in 2000,1 about 17,000 miles for every man, woman, and child [2, 3].
Just over 85 percent of passenger...
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SOURCES: All except as noted—U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, "Government...
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NOTE: Current dollar data are available in table 114 in appendix B and were adjusted using a chain-type index to eliminate the effects of...
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SOURCE: Association of American of Railroads, Railroad Facts 2001 and 2002 (Washington, DC: 2001 and 2002 issues).
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...