FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, March 8, 2001
Contact: Catrina Pavlik
Tel: (202) 366-1500
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New Pocket Guide to Transportation Shows Increase in Truck Travel
The U.S. Department of
Transportation=s
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released a new edition of the Pocket
Guide to Transportation showing an increase of 225 percent over the last 29
years in miles traveled by trucks.
The
report also showed that while the miles traveled by truck grew significantly,
the miles traveled by passenger car increased by only 71 percent from 1970 to
1999. The Pocket Guide to
Transportation is a compact report that gives users easy access to important
information about the nation=s
transportation system.
Dr. Ashish Sen, BTS
Director, said, AThis
small publication contains a wealth of useful data and information about how the
transportation system contributes to our society=s
mobility and economy.@
The Pocket Guide is
another way that BTS is providing the public and private sectors with easy
access to transportation system information that will be used to make improved
transportation decisions for the future.
The Pocket Guide
is divided into five sections and a glossary that cover the extent and use of
the transportation system and its impacts on safety, the economy, energy use,
and the environment. Much of the
information is based on data from the Bureau=s
publications, National Transportation Statistics 2000 and Transportation
Statistics Annual Report 2000. BTS
will release these publications within the next few months.
To order free copies
of the Pocket Guide to Transportation, visit www.bts.gov,
call 202-366-DATA (press 1), fax 202-366-3640, or write to Product Orders,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation, Room
3430, 400 Seventh Street. S.W., Washington, DC 20590.
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