2000-09-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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Air quality policies, driving cycles and profiles of average driving behavior have been constructed to characterize the driving behavior of the overall fleet in an effort to ensure vehicle compliance. Chase car data and speed-time profiles of in-use vehicles recorded using a chase car method are used to build the cycles. The acceptability of using
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United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
2000-09-01
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Omnibus Surveys
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)—the federal statistical agency for the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) charged with improving the knowledge base for public decision making—coordinates the Omnibus Survey program. The survey is a ONEDOT effort to collect information about the transportation system, how it is used, and
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2000-09-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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Some of the issues complicating the statistical analysis of vehicle emissions and the effectiveness of emissions control programs are presented in this article. Issues discussed include: the variability of inter- and intra-vehicle emissions; the skewness of emission distribution from in use vehicles; the difficulty of obtaining statistically repres
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United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
2000-09-01
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Multimodal Transportation Indicators
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This report provides timely and easily accessible information for the transportation community. It was developed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and is updated every two months on the BTS website. The indicators fall under two broad categories: those that provide context about the eco
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United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
2000-09-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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The Journal of Transportation and Statistics (JT&S) was a periodically issued journal (from 1998 to 2014) that served the transportation community by increasing the understanding of the role of transportation in society, its function in the economy, and its interactions with the environment. In addition, the JT&S provided a forum for the latest dev
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The Mobile Source Emission Factor Model used to estimate the inventory of exhaust and evaporative emissions from on-road motor vehicles is currently being revised by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The framework used in calculating basic exhaust emission rates as a function of accumulated vehicle mileage is described. The revised MOBILE6
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2000-09-01
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics in partnership with the U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Intermodalism and the Federal Highway Administration sponsored the development of an Intermodal Bottleneck Evaluation Tool (IBET) to provide information and assist transportation planners and policymakers in identifying potential freight bo
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2000-09-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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The deficient transportation system of Beirut results in significant economic losses for the city and causes severe traffic congestion in the urban areas. Proposals have been made for grade separations at some of the worst congested intersections. The major concern at these intersections is air quality which greatly depends on the geometric configu
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he Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has a requirement to conduct a national survey about satisfaction with transportation across all transportation modes. The information derived from this survey will be used as a primary source of data on satisfaction with travel and transportation, with a particular emphasis on highway-related travel. Th
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This study collected data for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Omnibus Survey during the summer of 2000. Data were collected from households in the U.S. using a random-digit- dialed telephone survey. The final completed sample size is 2,030 cases, and the total number of variables in the data set is 207. The data were collected by Batt
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United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
2000-08-01
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Omnibus Surveys
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)—the federal statistical agency for the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) charged with improving the knowledge base for public decision making—coordinates the Omnibus Survey program. The survey is a ONEDOT effort to collect information about the transportation system, how it is used, and
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Information about land use by and adjacent to transportation systems is essential to understanding the environmental impacts of transportation systems. Nevertheless, such data are presently sparse and incomplete, especially at the national scale. To address the need for land use data, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and Oak Ridge Nati
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2000-04-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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This paper seeks to illuminate the status of transportation safety and risk for large-quantity shipments of spent commercial reactor fuel and mixed and hazardous wastes by examining road and rail accident and vehicular travel data from the mid-1990s. Of special interest are the effect of speed limit changes on controlled access expressways (chiefly
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2000-04-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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As a commodity, transportation has a supply side and a demand side. Unlike many other commodities, however, transportation's supply and demand overlap extensively. A significant portion of transportation is provided by consumers for their own use. Therefore, transportation means not only transportation industries, those businesses whose primary act
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2000-04-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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Using data from the 1997 Survey of Drivers conducted by the University of Michigan Trucking Industry Program, we identify the factors which substantially affect three safety measures: accidents, moving violations, and hours of service violations. The variables used include both operational characteristics (firm size, trailer type) and personal char
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2000-04-01
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Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)
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The 1997 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value,
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We investigate the hypothesis of induced travel demand. County level data from Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Washington, DC are used to estimate? fixed-effects? cross-sectional time-series models that relate travel levels, measured as daily vehicle miles of travel, to roadway capacity in lane-miles. This includes analysis of a difference
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United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
2000-04-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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The Journal of Transportation and Statistics (JT&S) was a periodically issued journal (from 1998 to 2014) that served the transportation community by increasing the understanding of the role of transportation in society, its function in the economy, and its interactions with the environment. In addition, the JT&S provided a forum for the latest dev
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United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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2000-04-01
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Commodity Flow Survey (CFS)
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The Commodity Flow Survey comprises one section of the 1997 Economic Census. The economic census is the major source of facts about the structure and functioning of the Nation's economy. It provides essential information for government, business, industry, and the general public. Title 13 of the United States Code (Sections 131, 191, and 224) direc
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2000-04-01
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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This study uses commodity flows from the 1993 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) together with Input-Output (I-O) coefficients to generate truck flows for the state of Wisconsin. Production and attraction rates in tons, for the heavy truck mode only, were derived at the county level using employment for 28 economic sectors. The CFS, a joint product of the
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