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Urban Highway Travel Times - Box 3-A

Urban Highway Travel Times - Box 3-A Travel Time Index

Developed by the Texas Transportation Institute, the Travel Time Index is the ratio of peak period travel time to free-flow travel time. A value of 1.0 indicates that traffic is moving freely. A value of 1.3 indicates that it takes 30...

Lift- or Ramp-Equipped Buses and Rail Stations - Box 7-B

Lift- or Ramp-Equipped Buses and Rail Stations - Box 7-B Transit Accessibility Under the ADA

While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 requires public transit services, under specific conditions, to be accessible to persons with special needs, it did not impose a statutory...

Highway Condition - Box 11- A

Highway Condition - Box 11- A Highway Functional Classification System

The Federal Highway Administration classifies roads according to the type of service provided and the type of area (urban or rural). There are three main types of roads: 1) arterials that provide the highest level of...

Figure 2-12 - Waterborne Freight Flows in the United States: 1998

Figure 2-12 - Waterborne Freight Flows in the United States: 1998

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Federal Highway Administration, and Office of Intermodalism (Office of the Secretary), GeoFreight, CD (Washington, DC: 2003...

Figure 5-3 - Share of Long-Distance Trips by Mode: 2001

Figure 5-3 - Share of Long-Distance Trips by Mode: 2001

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NOTES: Other includes watercraft (e.g., ship, ferry, and motorboat); taxi, limousine, and hotel/airport shuttle; bicycle and walking; and other not elsewhere classified.

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Figure 2-17 - Freight and Passenger Train-Miles: 1992-2002

Figure 2-17 - Freight and Passenger Train-Miles: 1992-2002

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SOURCE: Class I rail freight train-miles: Association of American Railroads (AAR), Railroad Facts 2003 (Washington, DC: 2003), p. 33. Intercity/Amtrak train-miles: 1992–...

U.S. International Trade in Transportation-Related Goods - Box 12-A

U.S. International Trade in Transportation-Related Goods - Box 12-A Merchandise Trade Balance Trends

Trade balances indirectly measure the U.S. competitiveness in supplying transportation-related goods globally and indicate the U.S. competitive position in the production, provision, and...