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Pocket Guide to Transportation 2002

Pocket Guide to Transportation 2002

February 2002
BTS02-02

NOTE: This edition of the Pocket Guide is provided as a historical reference. A newer edition of this publication, with more recent data for many items, is available. Some information and data in the historical document for a stated time period may differ from that for the same time period in the newer edition, reflecting revisions in the data by the source.

Table of Contents File Formats
Entire Report
Preface
Citation
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Transportation System Extent and Use
Table 1 - The Transportation Network: 2000
Chapter 2 - Transportation and Safety
Table 2 - Fatalities by Transportation Mode
Table 3 - Distribution of Transportation Fatalities: 2000
Table 4 - Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol involvement: 2000
Figure 1 - Fatalities in Alcohol-Related Crashes
Figure 2 - Fatality Rates for Selected Modes
Table 5 - Injured Persons by Transportation Mode
Table 6 - Airline Passenger Screening Results
Figure 3 - Worldwide Civil Aviation Hijackings
Chapter 3 - Mobility
Table 7 - Per Capita Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation
Table 8 - Number of Aircraft, Vehicles, and Vessels
Table 9 - Vehicle-Miles
Table 10 - Passenger-Miles
Figure 4 - Households by Number of Vehicles
Table 11 - Top 20 U.S. Passenger Airports
Table 12 - U.S.-Canadian Border Land-Passenger Gateways: 2000
Table 13 - U.S.-Mexican Border Land-Passenger Gateways: 2000
Table 14 - Top 20 U.S. Water Ports
Table 15 - U.S. Commercial Freight Shipments: 1997
Chapter 4 - Transportation and the Economy
Figure 5 - U.S. Gross Domestic Product by Major Societal Function: 2000
Figure 6 - Average Household Expenditures by Major Category: 2000
Table 16 - Value of U.S. International Merchandise Trade by Mode of Transportation: 2000
Table 17 - U.S. Merchandise Trade with Canada and Mexico by Mode: 2000
Table 18 - Top 20 Foreign Trade Freight Gateways by Value of Shipments: 2000
Table 19 - Employment in For-Hire Transportation and Selected Transportation-Related Industries
Table 20 - Government Transportation Revenues by Mode and Level of Government
Table 21 - Government Transportation Expenditures by Mode and Level of Government From Own Funds
Chapter 5 - Transportation, Energy, and the Environment
Figure 7 - U.S. Petroleum Production and Consumption
Figure 8 - Transportation's Share of U.S. Petroleum Use
Figure 9 - U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Use
Figure 10 - New Passenger Car and Light Truck Fuel Economy Averages: Model Years 1978–2000
Figure 11 - Index of Key Air Pollutant Emissions from U.S. Transportation: 1970-99
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