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Table 1-1M: System Kilometers Within the United States

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Highway^a	5,706,240	5,937,942	6,002,985	6,176,897	6,211,806	6,218,364	6,223,214	6,250,563	6,278,181	6,284,828	6,287,055	6,296,117	6,308,068	6,350,265	6,286,564	6,304,192	6,334,735	6,354,229	6,383,439	6,395,705
Class I rail^b,c	333,672	321,544	316,202	308,222	265,255	234,584	192,732	187,691	181,946	177,712	175,953	174,234	170,235	164,359	161,852	160,017	159,727	157,421	161,136	159,528
Amtrak^c	N	N	N	N	38,624	38,624	38,624	40,234	40,234	40,234	40,234	38,624	40,234	40,234	35,406	37,015	37,015	37,015	37,015	36,492
Transit^d
Commuter rail^c	N	N	N	N	N	5,752	6,649	6,498	6,457	6,583	6,583	6,695	5,926	7,108	8,324	8,354	8,383	8,382	7,145	U
Heavy rail	N	N	N	N	N	2,081	2,174	2,203	2,258	2,336	2,342	2,346	2,379	2,457	2,457	2,478	2,507	2,530	2,530	U
Light rail	N	N	N	N	N	618	777	887	898	865	904	913	1,027	1,061	1,088	1,291	1,343	1,444	1,518	U
Navigable channels^e	40,234	40,234	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843	41,843
Oil pipeline^f	307,295	339,358	351,917	363,533	351,469	343,764	335,954	328,029	316,309	312,181	306,339	292,759	285,715	289,478	287,506	285,599	284,847	255,063	259,409	258,892
Gas pipeline^g	1,015,416	1,235,204	1,469,761	1,575,971	1,692,666	1,800,655	(R) 1,913,832	(R) 1,944,409	(R) 1,957,123	(R) 2,055,454	(R) 2,073,479	(R) 2,056,098	(R) 2,130,128	(R) 2,143,324	(R) 2,174,546	(R) 2,157,004	(R) 2,203,675	(R) 2,210,434	2,271,398	U

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

^aAll public road and street kilometers in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. For years prior to 1980, some kilometers of nonpublic roadways are included. No consistent data on private road kilometers are available. Beginning in 1998, approximately 70,000 kilometers of Bureau of Land Management Roads are excluded.

^bData represent kilometers of road owned (aggregate length of road, excluding yard tracks, sidings, and parallel lines).

^cPortions of Class I freight railroads, Amtrak, and commuter rail networks share common trackage. Amtrak data represent kilometers of road operated.

^dTransit system length is measured in directional route-kilometers. A directional route-kilometer is the kilometers in each direction over which public transportation vehicles travel while in revenue service. Directional route-kilometers are computed with regard to direction of service, but without regard to the number of traffic lanes or rail tracks existing in the right-of-way.

^eThese are estimated sums of all domestic waterways which include rivers, bays, channels, and the inner route of the Southeast Alaskan Islands, but does not include the Great Lakes or deep ocean traffic. The Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center monitored 20,297 kilometers as commercially significant inland shallow-draft waterways in 2001.

^fIncludes trunk and gathering lines for crude-oil pipeline.

^gExcludes service pipelines. Data not adjusted to common diameter equivalent. Kilometers as of the end of each year. Includes gathering, transmission, and distribution mains. Prior to 1990 data also include field lines. See table 1-10 for a more detailed breakout of oil and gas pipeline kilometers. In the past, length data reported in Gas Facts was taken from the American Gas Association's member survey, the Uniform Statistical Report, supplemented with estimates for companies that did not participate. For 2002 and revised data back to 1990, Gas Facts length data is now based on information reported to the U.S. Department of Transportation on Form 7100.

NOTE

1.609344 kilometers = 1 mile.

SOURCES

Highway:

1960-95: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Summary to 1995, FHWA-PL-97-009 (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table HM-212.

1996-2003: Ibid., Highway Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table HM-20.

Class I rail:

1960-2003: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts 2004 (Washington, DC: 2004), p. 45, and similar tables in earlier editions.

Amtrak:

1980: Amtrak, Corporate Planning and Development, personal communication (Washington, DC).

1985-2001: Amtrak, Corporate Planning and Development, Amtrak Annual Report, Statistical Appendix (Washington, DC: Annual issues).

2002: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts 2003 (Washington, DC: 2003), p. 77.

Transit:

1985-2002: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, National Transit Database (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 23 and similar tables in earlier editions.

Navigable channels:

1960-96: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Ohio River Division, Huntington District, Ohio River Navigation System Report, 1996, Commerce on the Ohio River and its Tributaries (Fort Belvoir, VA: 1996), p. 2.

1997-99: Ibid., Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center Databases, personal communication, Aug. 3, 2001.

2000-03: Ibid., personal communication, Aug. 12, 2003 and July 23, 2004.

Oil pipeline:

1960-2000: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002), p. 58.

2001-03: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Office of Pipeline Safety, Pipeline Statistics, Internet site http://ops.dot.gov/stats.htm as of Dec. 8, 2004.

Gas pipeline:

1960-2002: American Gas Association, Gas Facts (Arlington, VA: Annual issues), tables 5-1 and 5-3 and similar tables in earlier editions.