Amtrak On-Time Performance

Seventy-four percent of Amtrak trains arrived at their final destination on time in 2003 [2]. This was below the system’s performance peak of 79 percent in 1998 and 1999 (figure 3-8). Amtrak counts a train as delayed if it arrives at least 10 to 30 minutes...

Figure 14-1 - Federal, State, and Local Government Transportation Revenues: Fiscal Years 1990-2000

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NOTE: Current dollars (see table 14-1b in appendix B) were converted to chained 2000 dollars by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics to...

Passenger-Miles of Travel

Estimated U.S. passenger-miles of travel (pmt) increased 24 percent between 1991 and 2001. Pmt totaled an estimated 4.8 trillion in 2001,1 averaging about 17,000 miles for every man, woman, and child (box 2-A) [2, 3].

Just over 85 percent of pmt in 2001...

Figure 15-5 - Average Motor Gasoline Prices and Highway Vehicle-Miles of Travel per Capita: 1993-2003

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NOTES: Railroad diesel fuel price and highway vehicle- and aircraft-miles of travel data were not available for 2003 when this report...

Figure 14-3 - Federal, State, and Local Government Transportation Expenditures: Fiscal Years 1990-2000

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NOTES: Federal transportation expenditures consist of outlays of the federal government including not only direct spending but also...

Long-Distance Travel by Income, Gender, and Age

While, on average, each person in the United States made nine long-distance trips in 2001, sociodemographic variables influence the number of these trips that individuals take. Among these variables are household income, gender, and age.

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Figure 2-4 - Daily Travel by Walking and Bicycling: 2001

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NOTE: Other modes include only number of person-miles and person trips where a mode was reported.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of...

U.S. International Trade in Transportation-Related Goods

The United States traded $299.6 billion worth (in current dollars1) of transportation-related goods (e.g., cars, trains, boats, and airplanes and their related parts) in 2002 with its partners (figure 12-2). Motor vehicles and automotive...

Key Air Emissions

Transportation in 2001 emitted 66 percent of the nation’s carbon monoxide (CO), 47 percent of nitrogen oxides (NOx), 35 percent of volatile organic compounds (VOC), 5 percent of particulates, 6 percent of ammonia, and 4 percent of sulfur dioxide.1 Highway vehicles...

Figure 12-1 - Relative Prices for Transportation Goods and Services for the United States and Selected Major Trade Partners: 2000

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NOTES: 2000 was the most recent year for which these data were available by country at the time this report...