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Last updated on April 6,
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- Census of Transportation
- Census of
Transportation - 1992
- Establishments, employees and payrolls for passenger services,
airlines, communications, and utilities
- Includes truck use and commodity flow
- PDF reports are normally 1-4 MB (long time to load) and include state
data
- Description of the program
and a list of annual updates
- Commodity Flow
Survey - 1997
- Only a preliminary US report has been published as of Sept. 8, 1999
- Shipment of goods by type of transportation (truck, air, rail,
water, pipeline, and mixed)
- Vehicle
Inventory and Use Survey - 1997 and 1992
- State reports for 1992 and 1997 on heavy and lightweight truck use as
well as sport utility vehicles (SUV) and station wagons
- Include industry for which used, mileage, and components of
vehicle
- Known in 1992 as the Truck Inventory and Use Survey
- FedStats
- Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal
government agencies
- Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
- Search engine indexes individual statistical tables
by keyword or agency and provides direct connection
- National
Transportation Statistics (BTS)
- Extensive annual report on air, rail, highway, and water transport
- Number of airports, baggage claim reports, airline departure delays
- New cars sold; time series of motor vehicle production by country
- Age of railroad cars and ships
- Economic and safety data
- National totals only; no data for individual companies
- National Transit Data
Base (Federal Transit Admin.)
- Financing and expenditures for over 600 state and local transit systems
- Data available in zipped xls or dbf formats and may be
downloaded by year, beginning with 1997
- President's
Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Commission to investigate transportation, telecommunications, water,
energy, emergency services, government services, and banking infrastructure
- As of March 1997, web site included miscellaenous transportation and
energy facts
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States, 1996
- Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on
the national and state levels
- Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education,
manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial
Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years)
- Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format
- State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format
- The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University
of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Statistical Sources menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: population projections and by
city
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version
- Consult Statistical Universe
Guide for various web searching alternatives
and a Slide
Show for further details
- U.S. Bureau of Transportation
Statistics
- Current air, highway, rail, and waterway transportation statistics
- Searchable data base
- Includes its extensive National Transportation
Statistics
- Most data must be downloaded in Adobe, Postscript, or Excel
format
- Air Disaster
- News reports, investigative reports, and voice recorder transcripts
of airplane disasters around the world
- Videos, eyewitness accounts, information about the plane model
- Air
Travel Consumer Report (DOT)
- Airline arrivals and departures, on-time and delayed, by airline and
airport
- Lost luggage
- Data is monthly with six month time lag on web posting
- Airport
Financial Data (FAA)
- Annual report on revenues and expenditures in individual airports
- Includes taxes paid and receipts from rental cards and "airport
retail sales"
- Aviation Accident
Statistics (NTSB)
- Accident and fatality statistics for U.S. airlines beginning 1982
- Accidents by type of carrier but not individual airline
- Aviation Safety
Information
- Searchable data base of aircraft accidents and less serious incidents
from the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal
Aviation Administration
- Databases searchable by a combination of keyword, aircraft model,
operator, airport, state, etc.
- Information for each incident details weather and operating
conditions as well as problems and injuries
- CrashDatabase.com
- International data base of airline crashes with more than 10
fatalities since 1970
- Browsable by date, location, airline, and aircraft
- Searchable by a combination of factors (e.g. ailine and aircraft)
- Data includes the above and a brief description of the cause
- Domestic Airline
Fares Consumer Report (DOT)
- Average and lowest one-way airline fares between cities
- Identifies the busiest commercial carrier and the one with the lowest
price
- Data is arranged by approximate flight mileage and appears
approximately nine months after the close of the quarter
- Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word format
- Flight Delays
- International Civil
Aviation Organization
- Press releases include statistics on air traffic and finance
- Major Airline
Disasters
- List of major commercial airline crashes, 1920-1996
- Provides date, crash site, aircraft and airline, number of
fatalities, and likely reason for crash
- Transportation Security
Administration
- Created in 2001 to implement security measures against terrorism
- Statistics on the hiring of federal airport screeners
- Progress reports on the implementation of security screening by state
- Advice to travelers on prohibited and permitted items
- American
Public Transit Association
- Legislative and organizational information
- Extracts from the National Transit Data Base, including data on the
top 30 municipal transit systems, their finances and ridership
- National data by subject on bus and light rail vehicles, mileage,
fares, injuries, and finances
- Automotive
Information Center (Michigan Electronic Library)
- Industry data includes quarterly automotive production and share of
U.S. market by various manufacturers
- Bottleneck
Study: 2004 (American Highway Users Alliance)
- Extensive report on traffic bottlenecks throughout the nation and
actions taken within the last five years to improve them
- Features a list of the worst traffic bottlenecks by state giving the
exact location, cars per day, and time lost in traffic
- The list is repeated in numerical rank order
- Carjackings in the
United States (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
- Data on carjackings, 1992-96
- Includes characteristics of victims, how they defended selves,
time of day, and whether vehicle recovered
- Characteristics of carjacker and means used
- Crash
Test
- Crash test ratings for a wide range of cars since the 1970s
- Front, side and offset crashes as well as overall ratings
- Edmund's
New and Used Cars
- Lists new cars by make and model with dealer invoice and retail
prices for standard and optional equipment
- Trade-in and retail prices on used cars for the past ten years
- Road tests, warranty information, and reviews
- Site includes advertisements for car-shopping services and
financing
- Fatality Analysis
Reporting System (NHTSA)
- Annual data on motor vehicle crashes since 1994
- Users can query data base by a variety of personal characteristics
(age, sex, alcohol use, severity of injuries), vehicle characteristics
(eg rollovers), conditions (location, weather) and driver characteristics
(suspended license)
- Search results may also be cross-tabulated
- Fatality
Facts (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety)
- Crashworthiness and death rates for individual brands of motor vehicles
- Deaths of occupants by demographic and vehicle characteristics;
requires Adobe Acrobat 3.0 rather than earlier versions
- Federal
Highway Administration
- Personal travel, toll facilities, traffic volume, and financial
data
- Full text or extracts of data from printed publications
- Fuel Economy
Guide (DOE/EPA)
- Search or compare individual car, van and light truck models for the
current year on fuel economy
- Indicates typical miles per gallon, annual gas cost, and
emissions
- Gas
Buddy
- Find gas prices at individual stations via zip code or city
- Information current to within 36 hours
- Global
Insight (UMich Only)
- Business database with news and time series data on general
economics as well as the automotive, energy medical and pharmaceutical,
and telecommunications sectors
- For Automotive, Energy, Healthcare and Telecoms, use the link
provided under MYINSIGHT SERVICES on the lefthand side of the main
screen to select options which will eventually appear on the lower part
of the lefthand side
- AUTOMOTIVE - production and sales by country and by
automotive company
- Highway
Statistics (FHA)
- Annual data on motor vehicles, drivers licenses, fuel, highway
finance and highway characteristics
- Most data available by state
- Lotus, Excel, or PDF format
- Keep
America Moving
- Private organization promoting safe highways and bridges
- National and state statistics on highway pavement and mileage, bridge
conditions, traffic congestion, fatalies, and federal aid
- Most data appears under Can We Fix Our Roads and
Bridges
- License Plates
of the World (Ga.Tech)
- Historical and current license plates of foreign countries, states in
the United States, and provinces of Canada
- Full color pictures and data on issuance
- National Safety
Council
- Excerpts from its Accident Facts
- Includes type of deaths by age and type of accident (car, poisoning,
firearms)
- School bus accidents, accidents and work and home
- Costs of accidents
- Full text located in the Graduate Library Reference Department as HA
217.A17 with additional copies on campus
- Petroleum Prices by State
(DOE)
- Spreadsheet of gasoline prices by type of gas by state, 1984-2001
- Spreadsheet based on Petroleum Marketing Annual 2001,
Appendix A1
- Price
Trends for Federal Aid to Highway Construction
- Price index nationally and by state on construction costs,
including excavation, portland and bituminous cement, structural steel
and structural concrete
- National data also divided by urban and rural locations
- Quarterly statistics since 1997
- Rollover
Resistance Ratings (NHTSA)
- Rates SUVs, vans, and various weights of passenger cars on rollovers
- Illustrations show how rollovers occur and ways to drive out of them
- Rising
Prices at the Pump (New York Times)
- Graph showing cost of gasoline at the pump from 1918 to May 2007 in
2007 dollars
- Links data to the Arab oil embargo, 9/11 and Iraq War
- Published by the New York Times on May 24, 2007
- State
Motorcycle Operator Licensing (Motorcycle Safety
Foundation)
- 2007 driver and motorcycle drivers licenses by state as well as
motoro vehicle and motorcycle registrations by state
- Transportation
Data (Census Bureau)
- Truck Inventory and Use data by state
- Annual receipts, expenditures, and employment on various
motor vehicle freight carriers beginning 1991
- Trucks
Involved in Fatal Accidents (UMich Transportation Research
Institute)
- Truck fatalities by state, cargo, type of vehicle, or cause
- Urban Mobility
Transportation Study
- Congestion data and costs per street mile in 68 urban areas, 1980-99
- Includes freeways and arteries
- All data available in spreadsheet format with additional access by
name of city on the righthand side of the screen
- 21% of Detroit freeways were congested during peak travel periods in
1980; in 1999 it was 70%
- Safer
Journey (FHWA)
- Interactive tool for children on pedestrian safety; follows a young
boy around the neighborhood
- Statistics on pedestrian and cycling accidents by age, sex, and state
- Recommendations for local transportation planners
- Association of American Railroads
- State data on railroad miles, wages, and commodity tonnage
- States are ranked for each aspect
- Names of railroads operating in a state
- Railraod
Safety Statistics Annual Report
- Injuries and deaths related to railroads since 1998
- Data classified by name of railroad, type of injury, cause of
injury
- Includes gate-crossings
- Historic Railroad Statistics
- Vessel Sanitation
Program (CDC)
- List of all international cruise ships at U.S. ports and their cleanliness
scores
- Detailed violations and corrective measures
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