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Pocket Guide to Transportation 2004

Pocket Guide to Transportation 2004

January 2004

NOTE: This edition of the Pocket Guide is provided as a historical reference.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 Some information and data in the historical document for a stated time period may differ from that for the same time period in the newer edition, reflecting revisions in the data by the source.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
Acknowledgments
Citation
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Transportation System Extent and Use
Table 1 - The Transportation Network: 2002
Chapter 2 - Transportation Safety
Table 2 - Fatalities by Transportation Mode
Table 3 - Distribution of Transportation Fatalities by Mode: 2001
Table 4 - Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Crashes by Number of Vehicles and Alcohol involvement: 2002
Figure 1 - Fatalities in Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crashes
Figure 2 - Fatality Rates for Selected Modes
Table 5 - Injured Persons by Transportation Mode
Chapter 3 - Transportation Security
Table 6 - Airline Passenger Screening Results
Figure 3 - Worldwide Civil Aviation Hijackings
Figure 4 - International Piracy and Armed Robbery at Sea
Figure 5 - U.S. Petroleum Production and Consumption
Figure 6 - Transportation's Share of U.S. Petroleum Use
Figure 7 - U.S. Oil Imports
Table 7 - Major Suppliers of U.S. Crude Oil and Petroleum Products
Chapter 4 - Mobility
Table 8 - Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation Per Capita
Table 9 - Number of Aircraft, Railcars, Vehicles, and Vessels
Table 10 - Vehicle-Miles
Table 11 - Passenger-Miles
Table 12 - Daily Travel: 2001
Table 13 - Long-Distance Travel: 2001
Figure 8 - Origin and Destinations of Long-Distance Interregional Trips: 2001
Figure 9 - Modal Shares of Passenger-Miles by Length of Long-Distance Trip: 2001
Figure 10 - Households by Number of Vehicles
Table 14 - Top 20 U.S. Passenger Airports
Table 15 - U.S.-Canadian Border Land-Passenger Gateways: 2002
Table 16 - U.S.-Mexican Border Land-Passenger Gateways: 2002
Table 17 - Roadway Delay and Congestion Cost Per Person in Urban Areas: 1991 and 2001
Table 18 - Amtrak On-Time Performance Trends and Hours of Delay by Cause
Table 19 - U.S. Airports with the Highest Percentage of Arriving Passenger Flights Delays
Table 20 - Top 20 U.S. Water Ports by Weight
Table 21 - U.S. Freight Shipments by Mode: Preliminary 2002
Figure 11 - Growth Trends of U.S. Domestic Freight Ton-Miles by Mode: 1980–2001
Chapter 5 - Transportation and the Economy
Figure 12 - U.S. Gross Domestic Product by Major Societal Function: 2001
Figure 13 - Average Household Expenditures by Major Category: 2002
Table 22 - Value of U.S. International Merchandise Trade by Mode of Transportation: 2002
Table 23 - Weight of U.S. International Merchandise Trade by Mode of Transportation: 2002
Table 24 - U.S. Merchandise Trade with Canada and Mexico by Mode Share: 2002
Table 25 - Top 20 Foreign Trade Freight Gateways by Value of Shipments: 2002
Table 26 - U.S. Trade in Transportation-Related Commodities:  2002
Table 27 - Employment in For-Hire Transportation and Selected Transportation-Related Industries
Table 28 - Government Transportation Revenues by Mode and Level of Government
Table 29 - Government Transportation Expenditures by Mode
Chapter 6 - Transportation and the Environment
Figure 14 - New Passenger Car and Light Truck Fuel Economy Averages: Model Years 1980–2002
Figure 15 - New Passenger Car and Light Truck Sales: Model Years 1980–2002
Figure 16 - U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Use: 1980–2002
Figure 17 - Index of Key Air Pollutant Emissions from U.S. Transportation: 1980–2001
Glossary