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General

Legacy ID
201

Highway Condition

Highway Condition

The condition of roads in the United States improved between 1993 and 2002. For instance, the percentage of rural Interstate mileage in poor or mediocre condition declined from 35 percent in 1993 to 12 percent in 2002 (figure 11-3). Moreover, poor or mediocre urban Interstate...

Passenger and Freight Vehicle-Miles of Travel

Passenger and Freight Vehicle-Miles of Travel

Annual highway vehicle-miles of travel (vmt) amounted to 2,856 billion in 2002, rising by 27 percent since 1992, an average annual increase of 2.4 percent. Vmt per capita rose by 13 percent during the same period, an average annual increase of 1.2...

Hazardous Materials Incidents and Injuries

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

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

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. 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...