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Transportation Injury Rates - Box

Transportation Injury Rates - Box Injury Data

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...

Transit Passenger-Miles Traveled

Transit Passenger-Miles Traveled

Transit passenger-miles traveled (pmt) grew 24 percent between 1991 and 2001, from 37.5 billion pmt to 46.5 billion pmt [1, 2]. As they have historically, buses had the largest pmt share in 2001, generating 19.6 billion pmt or 42 percent of all transit pmt (...

Household Spending on Transportation

Household Spending on Transportation

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,...

Passenger-Miles of Travel

Passenger-Miles of Travel

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...