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Chapter 8 - State of Transportation Statistics

Chapter 8 - State of Transportation Statistics State of Transportation Statistics

Bicycles parked at National Airport Metrorail station in Arlington, VA

People and organizations make innumerable transportation decisions every day, including when, where, and how to...

Preface

Preface

Congress requires the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to report on transportation statistics to the President and Congress. Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2000 is the seventh such report prepared in response to this congressional mandate, laid out in 49 U.S.C. 111 (...

Figure 2 - Disposition of Used Rubber Tires

Figure 2 - Disposition of Used Rubber Tires

Passenger cars, trucks, and motorcycles

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SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Solid Waste, Characterization of Municipal Solid Waste in the United States(Washington, DC: Various years...

Figure 1 - Stage 3 Airplanes as a Percentage of Fleets: 1992-1999

Figure 1 - Stage 3 Airplanes as a Percentage of Fleets: 1992-1999

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administra-tion, Report to Congress: Progress Report on the Transition to Quieter Airplanes (Washington, DC: Annual editions...

Figure 2 - Transportation Energy Use by Mode: 1998

Figure 2 - Transportation Energy Use by Mode: 1998

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SOURCE: Compiled from various sources, as cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2000 (Washington, DC: 2001).

Figure 1 - Impacts of Transportation on the Environment

Figure 1 - Impacts of Transportation on the Environment

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Figure 1 is a conceptual diagram (three stages) of the environmental impacts of transportation from a life cycle perspective. Phases (Stage 1) of transportation include fuel production and delivery, infrastructure...

Table 1 - Alleged Negative and Positive Impacts of Sprawl

Table 1 - Alleged Negative and Positive Impacts of Sprawl

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Substantive concern Alleged negative impacts Alleged positive impacts Public-private capital and operating costs Higher infrastructure costs Higher public operating costs More expensive private residential and...

Figure 1 - Reported Oil Spills by Type: 1994-1999

Figure 1 - Reported Oil Spills by Type: 1994-1999

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Coast Guard, Volume of Spills by Source, Oil Spill Compendium Data Tables, July 1999, available at http://www.uscg.mil, as of June 8, 2000.