Introduction

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 19911 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 Vehicle Reliability

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 8-7).

Among transit vehicles, buses and light rail...

Figure 4-4 - Average Capacity of Vessels Calling at U.S. Ports by Selected Type: 1998-2002

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KEY: dwt = deadweight tons.

NOTE: Calls are by oceangoing vessels of 10,000 dwt or greater at U.S. ports, excluding Great...

Figure 15-4 - Average Transportation Fuel Prices by Type: 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 was prepared. Current dollars (...

Transportation Fatality Rates

There were about 45,500 fatalities related to transportation in 2002—16 fatalities per 100,000 U.S. residents1 [1, 2, 4]. This is the same rate as in 1992, when there were about 42,000 deaths. Approximately 94 percent of all transportation fatalities in...

Airport Runway Conditions

Airport runway conditions stayed about the same at the nation’s major public-use airports between 1993 and 2003 [1] (box 11-B). At the nation’s commercial service airports, pavement in poor condition declined from 3 percent of runways in 1993 to 2 percent...

Figure 5-14 - Average Daily Trips per Day by Age: 2001

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and Federal Highway Administration, 2001 National Household Travel Survey data, CD-ROM, February 2004...

Long-Distance Passenger Travel

People in the United States made, on average, nine long-distance trips per person in 2001. This amounted to a total of 2.6 billion trips covering 1.4 trillion miles. The distance traveled on these trips in 2001 was about 4,900 miles per person [1].

Long-...

Vehicle Loadings on the Interstate Highway System - Box 4-A

Planning agencies design roadways to have a specific lifespan based on the expected volume and weight of vehicle traffic [1]. Since traffic streams are composed of a variety of vehicles of different...

Figure 2-2 - Passenger-Miles of Travel by Selected Mode: 1991-2001

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NOTE: see table 2-2 in appendix B.

SOURCES: Passenger-miles—U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National...