Daily Travel by Walking and Bicycling

Walking and bicycling are minor components of passenger travel in terms of total miles traveled or trips taken. According to the 2001 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS), walking accounted for 0.7 percent of person-miles of daily1 (mostly local) travel...

Rail Infrastructure and Equipment Repairs

Class I railroads1 provide vital freight transportation services—carrying more than one-third of domestic freight ton-miles2 each year [2]. These companies maintained 170,048 miles of track in 2002, down from 190,591 miles in 1992 [1]. Class I...

Figure 4-7 - Average Loaded U.S. Railcar Weight for Selected Commodities: 1992 and 2002

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NOTE: Miscellaneous mixed shipments is mostly intermodal traffic. Some intermodal traffic is included in commodity-specific categories, as well....

Transit Ridership - Box 7-A

Transit authorities reporting to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) provide data on the number of passengers who board public transportation vehicles rather than the number of passengers they serve....

Figure 3-10 - Share of U.S. Residents Experiencing Highway Traffic Congestion: 2002

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KEY: MSA = metropolitan statistical area.

NOTE: See corresponding tables for information on months/years of original data.

Figure 4-6 - Average Loaded U.S. Railcar Weight: 1992-2002

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NOTE: Average railcar weight is total tons transported divided by total carloads transported.

SOURCE: Association of American of Railroads, Railroad Facts...

Figure 11-12 - Average Age of Amtrak Locomotive and Car Fleets: Fiscal Years 1991-2001

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SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), National Transportation Statistics 2003, table 1-30,...

Figure 7-7 - Share of Transit Buses that are Lift- or Ramp-Equipped by Bus Type: 1993-2002

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

Figure 15-8 - Freight Ton-Miles, Energy Consumption, and Energy Efficiency Index: 1991-2001

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NOTE: For detailed information on data used here, see tables 15-7 and 15-8 in appendix B.

SOURCES: Passenger-miles of...

Figure 1-1 - Labor Productivity of Major Sectors: 1991-2001

Output per hour

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NOTES: No data are available for water transportation or natural gas pipeline. Data for local trucking, bus carriers, and petroleum pipeline were not...