Transit Safety Data by Mode for All Reported Incidents

Key: R = revised, U = data are not available.

^a  The figures for cable car, inclined plane, jitney, aerial tramway, and ferry boat are lumped together and appear in this footnote. Note that the 2003 data include 11 fatalities and 70 injuries that resulted from the Oct. 16, 2003 Staten Island Ferry incident.

^bIncidents include non-major (Single-injury slips/falls, fire that do not meet major thresholds) or major (Fatality, injury (requiring transport), property damage of $25,000 or more, evacuation due to or to a...

Transit Safety Data by Mode for All Reported Accidents

KEY: N = data do not exist; P = preliminary; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Accident statistics for cable car, inclined plane, jitney, and ferry boat were not available prior to 2015. The number of Incidents, Fatalities, and Injuries for these modes appear in the footnotes for table 2-34.

^b Accidents include transit vehicle collisions with motor vehicles, objects, and people (excluding suicides), as well as derailments / vehicles going off the road. Accident figures do not include fires, security events, or not otherwise...

Transit Safety and Property Damage Data

KEY: R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Totals do not include data for cable car, inclined plane, jitney, and ferry boat. This data appears in the footnotes for table 2-34.

^b The drop in the number of Incidents, Accidents, Injuries, and Property damage beginning from 2002 is due largely to a change in definitions by the Federal Transit Administration, particularly the definition of Injuries. The Injury threshold for filing an incident report changed to be two or more Injuries requiring immediate medical transportation away from...

Natural Gas Pipeline Profile

KEY: N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Total does not sum from components due to the omission of a line from source table for depreciation and other noncash expenses. 

^b Figures obtained by addition / subtraction and may not appear directly in data source.

^c Industry total includes integrated and combination company totals in addition to distribution and transmission company totals.

^d Excludes service pipeline. Data are not adjusted to common diameter equivalent. Mileage as of...

Oil Pipeline Profile

KEY: FERC = Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Includes companies whose pipelines carry crude petroleum, petroleum products, and nonpetroleum pipeline liquids.

^b Mileages of oil pipeline for years 1960-2000 include regulated and unregulated trunk and gathering crude lines, as well as refined oil trunk lines. Beginning in 2001, data include information for FERC-regulated oil pipeline companies only. For years 2001 and after, total miles of pipeline include both trunk...

Hazardous Liquid and Natural Gas Pipeline Safety and Property Damage Data

KEY: R = revised.

^a 1994 total Injured persons from hazardous liquid includes 1,851 injuries requiring medical treatment reported for accidents caused by severe flooding near Houston, TX, in October 1994.

Water Transport Profile

KEY:  N = data do not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a The international water freight operating revenues data was revised in Transportation in America 1998 for all years except 1994 and 1996. Therefore, the international water freight data for years 1994 and 1996 may not be comparable to other years.

^b Revenues paid by American travelers to U.S. and foreign flag carriers.

^c Data is based on NAICS classifications. Data for water transportation in 2002 includes NAICS categories 483100, 483200, 488300....

U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue Statistics, Fiscal Year

KEY: U = data are unavailable, R = revised.

^aResponses are the number of U.S. Coast Guard units involved. Sorties are the number of trips made by boat, aircraft, or cutter.

^b Search and rescue resource hours represent the time that Coast Guard assets (i.e., aircraft, boats, and cutters) perform search and rescue operations.

^c Those persons whose lives were lost before the U.S. Coast Guard was notified of an incident.

^d The Egypt Air (217 fatalities) and Alaska Air (88 fatalities) crashes...

Personal Watercraft Safety Data

KEY: U = data are not available.

^a Total vessels involved.

Recreational Boating Safety, Alcohol Involvement, and Property Damage Data

KEY: N = data does not exist.

^a The numbers for recreational boating safety fatalities in 2000 are raw numbers. Coast Guard reports a 6% addition as instructed by the DOT Inspector General because it found a discrepancy in a review of the Search and Rescue Management Information System (SARMIS) and BARD data. (See the discussion found in the DOT FY2003 Performance Plan/2001 Performance Report on pg. 135 under data details of recreational boating fatalities, available at http://www.dot.gov/performance/ as of Feb 10, 2010).

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