Hazardous Materials Incidents and Injuries

Transportation firms reported more than 15,300 hazardous materials incidents in 2002.1 These incidents resulted in 7 deaths and 129 injuries, compared with annual averages of 22 deaths and 419 injuries between 1992 and 2002. During that decade, the...

Figure 3-6 - Average Actual and Scheduled Travel Time: 1990, 2000, and 2002

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NOTE: These results, based on ongoing research, are preliminary. The Travel Time Variability Index is based on the standard deviation of actual travel time....

Figure 2-14 - Rail Freight Flows in the United States: 1999

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).

Years of Potential Life Lost from Transportation Accidents

For people under 65 years of age, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has ranked transportation accidents as the third leading cause of death in the United States (after cancer and heart disease) each year from 1991 to 2000 [1]....

U.S. International Trade in Transportation-Related Services

U.S. trade in transportation services in 2002 totaled $105.4 billion (in current dollars1), down 2 percent from $107.6 billion in 2001 (figure 12-4). This decline was smaller than the 8 percent drop between 2000 and 2001. Of the trade...

Figure 7-1 - Transit Passenger-Miles by Type of Service: 1992-2002

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NOTE: Other includes modes such as automated guideway, Alaska Railroad, cable car, ferryboat, inclined plane, monorail, trolleybus, and vanpool.

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Figure 7-3 - Transit Ridership by Selected Type of Service: 1992-2002

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Summaries and Trends, Annual Reports, available at http://www....

Figure 2-11 - Commercial Freight Activity for All Modes by Shipment Value: 1993, 1997, and 2002

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NOTES: 2002 Commodity Flow Survey and supplemental data are preliminary. For information on coverage of supplemental estimates, see tables 2-9...

Figure 13-5 - Share of For-Hire Transportation Value Added by Mode: 1991-2001

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KEY: GDP = Gross Domestic Product.

NOTE: Current dollars (see table 13-4b in appendix B) were adjusted to eliminate the effects of inflation...

Figure 8-8 - Saint Lawrence Seaway U.S. Locks Downtime by Cause: 1992-2002

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NOTE: These data pertain only to the two U.S. locks (Snell and Eisenhower) on the Saint Lawrence Seaway between the Port of Montreal and Lake Ontario. Canada...