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...

Domestic Freight Ton-Miles - Box 2-B

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) gathers two datasets on freight ton-miles. Here, the data were compiled from a variety of modal sources to produce annual trend data. The original sources derive their data...

Labor Productivity in Transportation

Labor productivity (output per hour) in the for-hire transportation services and petroleum pipeline industries increased by 16 percent from 1991 to 2001. This compares with an increase of 44 percent for all manufacturing and 23 percent for the overall...