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Domestic Freight Ton-Miles - Box 2-B

Domestic Freight Ton-Miles - Box 2-B Domestic Freight Ton-Miles Data

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 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...

Lock Downtime on the Saint Lawrence Seaway

Lock Downtime on the Saint Lawrence Seaway

Locks along the Saint Lawrence Seaway (the Seaway) are usually closed between late December to late March because of ice. At other times of the year, shipping can be disrupted when locks are closed for other reasons.

Excluding the winter...

Government Transportation Revenues

Government Transportation Revenues

Federal, state, and local government transportation revenues earmarked to finance transportation programs1 increased from $90.9 billion in 1990 to $125.9 billion in 2000 (in 2000 chained dollars2) for an annual average growth rate of 3.3 percent (figure 14-...

Figure 2-13 - Truck Freight Flows in the United States: 1998

Figure 2-13 - Truck 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)....

Commercial Motor Vehicle Repairs

Commercial Motor Vehicle Repairs

In the United States, there were over 662,000 active motor carriers—common, contract, or private—using buses or trucks to provide commercial transportation of passengers or freight in 2004 [2]. Trucking accounted for 28 percent of the nation...

Transportation Services

Transportation Services

The contribution of for-hire transportation industries to the U.S economy, as measured by their value added (or net output), increased (in 2000 chained dollars1) from $206.4 billion in 1991 to $300.2 billion in 2001 (figure 13-4). In the same time period, this segment...