1. Transportation Facts and Figures
CEE 320 Steve Muench 26 March 2007

2. Outline Air Rail Sea Vehicle National Washington State
Give a sense of scale

3. Air Transportation (2004/5)
Airports: ,854
Airports for Public Use: ,270
Certified Airports:
(30+ seat passenger planes)
Major Air Carriers:
All Air Carriers:
Air Carrier Aircraft: ,186
Aircraft: ,426
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

4. Passengers Boarded (2005) 1. Atlanta (Hartsfield) 41,633,082 2.
Chicago (O’Hare)
33,762,185 3.
Dallas/Ft. Worth
27,713,052 4.
Los Angeles
22,966,430 5.
Las Vegas
20,704,972 6.
Denver
20,206,057 7.
Phoenix
20,077,766 8.
Houston
18,185,215 9.
Minneapolis
17,824,111
10.
Detroit
17,363,929
15.
SeaTac
13,963,919
Table 1-41
Atlanta Hartsfield has grown by 19 million since 1993
For Dallas/Ft. Worth 17.9 million passengers boarded were American Airlines
Heathrow is probably about 31.5 million (and growing with the addition of another terminal)
Hong Kong is about 17 million (33.4 million passengers total)
Largest airport by land area in U.S.: Denver International (something like 50 square miles)
Las Vegas is growing FAST (82.9% since 1995, 6.7% from )
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

5. Rail Transportation (2004)
Class 1 Railroads:
All Railroads:
Class 1 Freight Cars: 473,773
Class 1 Locomotives: 22,015
Table 1-2 and Table 1-11
In 1960 we used to have over 1.6 million freight cars and 29,000 locomotives
class 1, class 2, etc. railroad company: Refers to a railroad company's size in terms of its average annual operating revenue as defined by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Because the Interstate Commerce Commission was disbanded in the mid-1990's, the future of this definition is somewhat clouded. The Interstate Commerce Commission used to update the figures regularly for inflation. As a general rule a typical class 1 railroad is a large company with many miles of track and serves many states with a fleet of locomotives sometimes in the thousands. A typical class 2 railroad is a company that is a regional railroad that may serve a few states and has somewhere around 30 to 200 locomotives. A typical class 3 railroad is a small railroad that typically operates only in one state, has only a handfull of locomotives, and usually operates less than 200 miles of track. In many cases, a class 3 railroad exists primarily to serve only one city or a single industry or industrial area.
Specific Figures are:
Class 1 - railroads with an operating income of $50 million ( 1978 dollars ) or more.
Class 3 - railroads with an operating income of less than $10 million ( 1978 dollars ).
Class 2 - railroads that fall in between these figures.
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

6. Sea Transportation (2004) Marine Vessel Operators: 798
Self-Propelled Vessels: 8,994
Non Self-Propelled Vessels: ,296
Recreational Boats: 12,781,476
Table 1-11
In 1960 we had:
6,543 self-propelled vessels
16,777 non self-propelled vessels
2.4 million recreational boats
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

7. Top U.S. Ports by Tonnage (2004)1.
South Louisiana, LA
124.2 million tons 2.
Houston, TX
102.0 million tons 3.
New York, NY and NJ
152.4 million tons 4.
Beaumont, TX
91.7 million tons 5.
Long Beach, CA
79.7 million tons 6.
Corpus Christi, TX
78.9 million tons 7.
New Orleans, LA
78.1 million tons 8.
Huntington, WV-KY-OH
77.3 million tons
30.
Tacoma, WA
26.3 million tons
37.
Seattle, WA
23.5 million tons
43.
Anacortes, WA
16.3 million tons
Table 1-51
2005 data
Singapore = largest at 23.2 million TEU
Hong Kong = 2nd at 22.4 million TEU
Shanghai is 3rd and rapidly approaching Hong Kong and Singapore at 18.1 million TEU
Shenzen is 4th at 16.2 million TEU
Hamburg = 94 million tons
LA is 1st US Port at 7.5 million TEU
Long Beach is 2nd at 6.7 million TEU
Data from:
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

8. Vehicle Transportation (2005)
Centerline Miles of Road: 3,995,635
Lane Miles of Road: ,371,718
Registered Motor Vehicles: 243,023,485
Truck Combinations: ,010,335
Transit Buses: ,033
Total VMT: trillion miles
Table 1-1, 1-6, 1-32
In 1960 we had:
74.4 million registered vehicles
700,000+ truck combinations
53,400 Transit Buses
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

9. Road Use Growth
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2003

10. Highway Vehicle Trends
From FHWA, Highway Statistics Series

11. U.S. Interstate Highway Condition
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2005

12. Travel to Work (2005) Automobile: 88.4% Public Transportation: 4.4%
Single: (79.3%)
Carpool: (9.1%)
Public Transportation: %
Bicycle or Motorcycle: %
Walk: %
Table 1-38
All numbers indicate that we are driving our cars to work ourselves more and more
Although in 2005 carpools went up 0.4% and self driving went down 0.1%
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

13. Measures of Congestion (2003)
Rank
Urban Area
Travel Time Index 1.
Los Angeles, CA
1.75 2.
Chicago, IL
1.57 3.
S.F. – Oakland, CA
1.54 4.
Washington, D.C.
1.51 5.
Atlanta, GA
1.46 6.
Houston, TX
1.42 7.
Miami, FL
11.
Seattle – Everett, WA
1.38
This is 2002 Data. For 2001 data, Seattle was 4th
Seattle has gone from 1.07 in 1982 to 1.35 now
From the Texas Transportation Institute

14. Financing Transportation
Total Government Revenues (2001) $125 Billion
Total Government Expenditures (2001) $183 Billion
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

15. Financing Transportation
(2001 Data - Billions of Dollars)
Highway
Transit
Air
Total Revenues
$ 86.1
$ 13.3
$ 21.9
Highway Trust Fund
$ 26.9
$ 4.6 -
Airport and Airways Trust Fund
$ 10.1
State
$ 52.6
$ 1.6
$ 0.9
Local
$ 6.6
$ 7.2
$ 10.9
From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2006

16. Annual Metro Passenger Trips

17. Annual Metro Trips per Capita (based on population of Seattle)

18. 1950s Plan for Seattle freeways

19. 1977 Plan for the West Seattle bridge and a waterfront freeway

20. 1977 proposed West Seattle bridge
1977 proposed Alaskan Way waterfront freeway