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Transportation is an essential component of the domestic and world economy. As a sizable element of the country’s gross domestic product, transportation employs millions of people and consumes substantial goods and services. It also enables economic growth and...
The National Household Travel Survey, last conducted in 2001, is a U.S. Department of Transportation effort sponsored by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Highway Administration to...
Resource constraints in the past year have resulted in the reduction in scope or discontinuation of two transportation statistics data series that extend back several decades—the passenger travel and vehicle inventory and use surveys.
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The Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Highway Administration have developed new estimates of the amount of freight shipped in the United States. The new estimates combine data from...
Reducing transportation-related deaths, injuries, and property damage is a priority goal of the transportation community. In most categories fatality rates in relation to miles traveled have declined over time, which means the transportation system is safer than in prior...
As people travel and freight is transported, damage can occur to the human and natural environment. Transportation also impacts the environment when transportation equipment and fuels are produced and infrastructure is built, during repair and maintenance of...
The United States, the fourth largest country by land area, has developed an extensive transportation system to serve its 300 million residents and 7 million business establishments. Americans travel a great deal as they go to and from work, run...
The Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics gathers Government Transportation Financial Statistics (GTFS) data from various sources — including the Office of Management...
2005 (unless otherwise noted)
AirExtent 5,270 public use airports 14,584 private use airports
Aircraft and use 8,186 certificated air carrier aircraft, 7.71 billion airplane-miles flown, 795.12 billion passenger-miles...