OUR NATION’S TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE

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• Connects

– cities to suburbs, factories to markets, ports to warehouses,

workers to work places, children to schools

• Supports other critical infrastructure, e.g., energy

• Is enormous,

– 4 million miles of roads

– 175,000 miles of rail lines

– 12,000 miles of navigable inland waterways

– 1.7 million miles of oil and gas pipelines

Transportation infrastructure moves people and goods,

and supports nation’s economy

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• Carries 254 million vehicles

• Provides mobility to 15 million Americans who do not own a

vehicle

• Moves 16 billion tons of goods

• Pipelines transport 5.4 billion barrels of petroleum

• Supports 10 million airline flights, carrying 800 million

passengers and 44 billion tons of freight among commercial

service 600 airports.

• The entire transportation system accounts for nearly 9 percent

of U. S. gross domestic product.

Infrastructure spending by federal and state governments in 2006

$42 billion

$66 billion

Federal

State

Total = $108 billion

$38 billion distributed

as infrastructure

grants to states

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration,

Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Government Transportation Financial Statistics 2007

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Note: Includes capital expenses for equipment such as rolling stock (subway cars and buses for example) or other

transportation equipment (such as a state DOT’s operation center’s computers).

Amount of freight moved on highways, railroads,

and inland waterways: 2007

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Measured by weight, freight movements on the U.S. transportation

system decreased by 13% from 2007 to 2009

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Air (include truck-air)

Water

Rail

Truck

Source: Freight Analysis Framework, Federal Highway Administration, U.S.

Department of Transportation.

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Interstate Highway Miles are 1 percent of the total road

miles but carry 24 percent of the total travel

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Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of

Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics

Total Road Miles =

4,050,717

46,720 2009

Interstate Miles

Non-Interstate Miles

4,003,997

Demand on the system continues to increase Amount of driving on highway vs. highway miles,1990-2010

Source: Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.

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Rail Miles Index

Ton Mile: a unit of measurement in freight transportation equal to the movement of one

ton of goods by one mile

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology

Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, November 2011

Similar trends are observed in freight rail lines Rail ton miles vs. rail miles,1990-2008

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Higher demand and level roadway capacity contribute to traffic

congestion

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Source: Texas Transportation Institute, Congestion Data for Your City, Excel

spreadsheet of the base statistics for the 101 urban areas and population group

summary statistics (College Station, TX: 2011), available at http://mobility.tamu.edu

as of Jan. 20, 2011.

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Structurally Deficient and Total Bridges by Age

"Functional" Structurally Deficient

U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory, available at

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi.htm as of November 2011.

Percentage deficient bridges by state

Note: Structural deficiencies are characterized by deteriorated conditions of significant bridge

elements and reduced load-carrying capacity. A "structurally deficient" designation does not

imply that a bridge is unsafe, but such bridges typically require significant maintenance and

repair to remain in service, and would eventually require major rehabilitation or replacement to

address the underlying deficiency.

Source: Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation.

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In 2010, one in every nine rural Americans had no access to intercity

transportation services

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.

12 Modes: Air, intercity bus, intercity ferry and intercity rail.

Between 2005 and 2010, 3.5 million rural residents lost access to

scheduled intercity transportation

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.

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Transit ridership increased by 33% from 1995 to 2009—to 10.4 billion

trips a year

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Source: 2011 Public Transportation Fact Book, American Public Transportation Association.

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Transit infrastructure condition

• On average, transit rail locomotives, coaches and cars are 18 years

old

• Transit buses are 6 years old or older

• One in every 4 transit stations is in excellent or good condition

• The majority of the transit underground tunnels are in excellent or

good condition

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration,

Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges and Transit: Conditions and

Performance.

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Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Market (All Carriers)

Air passenger travel grew 60% and air freight grew 135%

from 1990 to 2010

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Passengers

Freight

Passengers (millions) Freight (millions of tons)

1990 2010

Rank

Passengers

(millions) Rank

Passengers

(millions)

1 Chicago O'Hare 26.7 1 Atlanta 43.0

2 Dallas/Fort Worth 23.1 2 Chicago O'Hare 32.2

3 Atlanta 23.0 3 Los Angeles 28.9

4 Los Angeles 21.5 4 Dallas/Fort Worth 27.0

5 San Francisco 14.6 5 Denver 25.2

6 New York JFK 13.8 6 New York JFK 22.9

7 Denver 12.0 7 Houston Bush 19.5

8 Miami 11.7 8 San Francisco 19.3

9 New York LaGuardia 11.1 9 Las Vegas 18.9

10 Phoenix 10.7 10 Phoenix 18.9

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Market (All Carriers)

In 2010, the top 10 airports accounted for almost one-third of all air

passenger travel

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Causes of flight delays, Jan-Sept 2011

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. Department of Transportation

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27.9%

3.0% 31.3% 0.2%

37.6%

Air Carrier

Weather

Air Traffic Control & Airports

Security

Aircraft Arriving Late

The majority of the tarmac delays in May 2011 were due to

weather issues

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U. S. Department of Transportation

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0 50 100 150 200 250 300

Oct 2008Nov 2008Dec 2008Jan 2009Feb 2009Mar 2009Apr 2009

May 2009Jun 2009Jul 2009

Aug 2009Sep 2009Oct 2009Nov 2009Dec 2009Jan 2010Feb 2010Mar 2010Apr 2010

May 2010Jun 2010Jul 2010

Aug 2010Sep 2010Oct 2010Nov 2010Dec 2010Jan 2011Feb 2011Mar 2011Apr 2011

May 2011Jun 2011Jul 2011

Aug 2011Sep 2011

DOT rule makes 3-hr tarmac times subject to fine

Tarmac times over 3 hours

Percent of on-time arrivals at major U.S. airports

Arriving at the gate within 15 minutes of scheduled arrival time

Top Five

1990 % 2010 %

1 Washington Dulles 84.3 1 Seattle 85.1

2 Charlotte 83.5 2 Phoenix 85.1

3 Las Vegas 82.6 3 Portland, OR 83.7

4 Salt Lake City 82.5 4 Denver 83.6

5 Washington Reagan 82.1 5 Charlotte 82.9

Bottom Five

1990 % 2010 %

5 New York La Guardia 74.2 5 Boston 76.3

4 Philadelphia 73.8 4 New York JFK 74.7

3 New York JFK 73.6 3 New York La Guardia 73.7

2 Newark 72.3 2 Newark 71.9

1 Seattle 72.2 1 San Francisco 71.3

Note: Major airports have at least 1 percent of the total of scheduled service domestic passenger enplanements for all

airports in the U.S.

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Airline On-Time Data

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Runway pavement conditions improved over time

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100%

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Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration, Office of

Airport Planning and Programming

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Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, Port Import Export

Reporting Service (PIERS); data collected from Vessel as of November 8, 2011.

Units: The statistics are shown in TEUs. A TEU is a nominal unit of measure equivalent to a

20’ x 8’ x 8’ shipping container.

86 percent of the total import and export container traffic

moves through the top 10 ports

Port Name 2010 TEUs Percentage of Total

1 Los Angeles, CA 5,559,046 20%

2 Long Beach, CA 4,433,994 16%

3 New York, NY 4,043,060 15%

4 Savannah, GA 2,170,339 8%

5 Oakland, CA 1,505,446 5%

6 Norfolk, VA 1,435,098 5%

7 Seattle, WA 1,417,070 5%

8 Houston, TX 1,348,072 5%

9 Charleston, SC 1,076,595 4%

10 Tacoma, WA 835,556 3%

Total for Top 10 Sea Ports 23,824,276 Top 10 Total: 86%

Total for All U.S. Sea Ports 27,877,546

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Percentage of passenger transportation terminals with

connectivity to other modes

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Airports

Amtrak andAlaska Railroad

Terminals

Commuter RailStations

Ferry Terminals

Number of Terminals

With connectingmodes

Without connectingmodes

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