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Containers loaded on ship at the Port of Miami, FL.
Transportation is a vital component of the U.S. economy. As a sizable element of the country's Gross Domestic Product, transportation employs millions of people and...
This plan, released in February 2000, is aimed at improving transportation statistics needed for data and analysis. The plan identifies six key areas or attributes for data with goals for...
The 10 research projects identified by the Safety Data Action Plan to improve data quality and fill data gaps will:
1. reengineer Department of Transportation data systems,
2. develop common...
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...
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 (...
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...
SOURCE: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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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...
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Transportation Energy Use
Passenger-miles
Gross Domestic Product
Population
SOURCES: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of...
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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).