Transportation Fatality Rates - Box 9-A

Each transportation mode tends to define fatality differently and may generate its fatality data using different methods. Therefore, comparisons across modes should be viewed very carefully. For further information on modal fatality...

Figure 8-9 - U.S. Containerized Imports by Major Port Regions: January 1999-September 2003

KEY: TEUs = 20-foot equivalent units.

NOTES: The reduction in Gulf Coast container traffic in 2000 was a result of the general economic downturn at the time....

Figure 9-7 - Injury Rates for Occupants of Selected Highway Vehicles and Motorcycles: 1992-2002

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NOTE: Some of the data used to calculate 2002 injury rates are preliminary. Bus and large truck occupant injury rates, 1992–2002, are...

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...