Statistical Sources

Mary K. Geary, Northwestern University Transportation Library, compiler

Statistical Sources: Print/Electronic Resources

Davis, Stacy C. Transportation Energy Data Book. Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2001, 21th edition, v. p. Available at http://www-cta.ornl.gov/cta/data/Index.html. Internet; Accessed July 2002.

United States and international, multimodal statistics including: petroleum, global energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, criteria pollutants, transportation & the economy, highway vehicles & characteristics, light vehicles & characteristics, heavy vehicles & characteristics, alternative fuel vehicles & characteristics, fleet vehicles & characteristics, household vehicles & characteristics and energy usage relative to non highway modes: air transport, railroads, rail transit and water transport.

Hu, Patricia S. and Young, Jennifer R. Summary of Travel Trends: 1995 Nationwide Transportation Survey. Washington, DC: Federal Highway Administration, 1999, 54p. Available from: http://www-cta.ornl.gov/npts/1995/Doc/trends_report.pdf, and at: http://www.bts.gov/ntda/npts/search.html; Internet; Accessed March 2001.

Summary of the exhaustive, census based transportation survey covering personal vehicles, commuter vehicles and commuter rail, including detailed tables on: demographics, trip descriptions, travel trends, road usage, travel times and vehicle usage & occupancy.

International Road Federation. World Road Statistics. Geneva; Washington, DC: International Road Federation, annual.

Reportage is supposed to be for five preceding years; however contributing nations are not uniformly covered. Includes listings by continent, region and nation, addressing: road networks, production and export of motor vehicles, registrations and imports, vehicles in use, road traffic, multimodal traffic comparisons, motor fuels, road accidents, rates and tax assessments, tax receipts and road expenditures. Figures are rounded off.

International Road Transport Union. World Transport Statistics. Geneva, Switzerland: International Road Transport Union, 6th edition, 1996, 535 p.

Covering 1985-1994, addresses multimodal transport for 178 nations of the world, including: road networks, motor vehicles, railway networks, rolling stock, freight, sea-borne traffic and air traffic.

Moody's Transportation Manual. New York: Moody's Investor's Service, annual.

Contains current financial and investment information on U.S. and international companies involved in the transportation industry, including: rail, air, trucking, pipelines, steamship, vehicle leasing, freight forwarding and miscellaneous transportation companies

National Safety Council. Injury Facts. Itasca, IL: National Safety Council, annual.

Formerly known as Accident Facts, Injury Facts is the most complete source of injury statistics available today. The National Safety Council has published this annual statistical report since 1927 and it has come to be recognized as the authoritative source for injury, incident and death statistics.

National Safety Council. International Accident Facts. Itasca, IL: National Safety Council, annual.

Covers 38 countries, including statistics on death rates by motor vehicles, other road vehicles, railway accidents, water transport accidents and air traffic accidents.

Transportation Association of Canada. Directory of Canadian Transportation Data. annual.

Originating in 1998, a listing of Canadian, multimodal transportation statistics and data sources.

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Annual Bulletin of Transport Statistics for Europe and North America. New York: United Nations, Economic Commission for Europe, annual.

A tri-lingual compilation of transportation statistics, in English, French and Russian, including data on general transportation, railways, road transport, inland waterways, oil pipelines, maritime transport and intermodal transport.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Directory of Transportation Data Sources. Washington, DC: The Bureau, annual (1993 & 1996).

Comprehensive directory of transportation statistical resources, listed by U.S., Federal agency, U.S. state agency, Canadian and Mexican governmental agencies and major U.S. private agencies.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. G-7 Countries Transportation Highlights. Washington, DC: The Bureau, 1999. 40p. Available from: http://199.79.179.77/ntda/nortad/; Internet; Accessed March 2001.

Covers the United States, Canada, Japan, England, France, Germany and Italy, including key statistics on the transportation systems, transportation & the economy, transportation safety and energy & the environment.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. 1998 North American Transportation Atlas Data. Washington, DC: The Bureau, 1998, optical disc. Available from: http://199.79.179.77/ntda/nortad/; Internet; Accessed March 2001.

Contains a set of geospatial statistics and data on intermodal facilities and terminals within the United States, Canada and Mexico.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. North American Transportation Highlights. Washington, DC: TheBureau. Available from: http://www.bts.gov/programs/itt/nats/pdf/NAThighli.pdf; Internet; Accessed March 2001.

Includes only the 1996 statistics from North American Transportation in Figures.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. North American Transportation in Figures. Washington, DC: The Bureau, 2000, English Edition, 390p. Available from: http://www.census.gov/econ/www/natf/natf.html; Internet; Accessed March 2001.

Comprehensive, multimodal transportation statistics for the United States, Canada and Mexico, covering data from 1990, 1995 and 1996. The statistics include: country overviews; transportation & the economy; transportation safety; transportation, energy & the environment; domestic freight activity; North American merchandise trade; international merchandise trade between North America and the rest of the world; domestic, North American and international passengers travel; transportation infrastructure and transportation vehicles.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Transportation Statistics Annual Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Transportation, annual. Available from: http://www.bts.gov/publications/tsar/. Internet, accessed July 2002.

Comprehensive report of U.S. transportation data and statistics, covering all modalities and including: system extents & conditions, transportation system uses & performance, transportation & the economy, transportation safety and transportation energy & the environment.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Worldwide Transportation Directory: Statistical Contacts and Transportation Profiles by Continent and Country. Washington, DC: United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1997, 118p. Available from: http://www.bts.gov/itt/wtd/; Internet; Accessed March 2001.

Comprehensive directory of international governmental and transnational organizations which provide significant transportation related statistics, listed by country and by continent. Includes a list of foreign embassies in the United States with their e-mail addresses.

U.S. Census Bureau. Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, annual. Also available: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html; Internet; Accessed March 2001.

Originating in 1878, the modern format covers a wide range of domestic, multimodal, transportation data, divided between land transport and air & water transport. Land transport includes: urban and rural highway mileage, federal-aid highway systems, functional systems, regulatory bodies, motor carriers, fuel consumption, cost indices, freight, traffic safety and the automotive industry. Air transport includes: finances, orders, airlines, accidents & deaths, traffic, passenger data and the air transportation industry. Water transportation includes freight, finances, employment and safety. Selected statistics available on foreign transportation systems.

Wilson, Rosalyn A. Transportation in America: Statistical Analysis of Transportation in the United States. Lansdowne, VA: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., 2000, 17th edition. 76 p.

Includes a snapshot of basic statistics on all modalities, including: economic & transport trends; federal & state transportation taxes & fees; government expenditures on transportation and intermodal statistics on transportation fatalities.

Wilson, Rosalyn A. Transportation in America: Statistical Analysis of Transportation in the United States, Historical Compendium 1939-1995. Lansdowne, VA: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., 1997, 70 p.

Historical, multimodal U.S. transportation statistics, including: freight, employment, petroleum consumption, transportation & the economy, transportation trends, user taxes & fees, intercity passenger & commercial transportation and the transportation industry.

The World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York: Newspaper Enterprise Association, annual.

Originating in 1868, the modern format includes international, multimodal statistics on a wide variety of transportation matters. Online versions are available through OCLC and Academic Universe, for subscribers.

Statistical Sources: Online Resources

Mary K. Geary, Northwestern University Transportation Library, compiler

The CIA Factbook. United States Central Intelligence Agency. Available from: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

Provides a statistical snapshot of multimodal transportation systems for 182 countries.

European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Statistics. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Available from: http://www.oecd.org/cem/; Internet; Accessed 18 February 2001.

Multimodal Statistics covering thirty-eight European countries and the Russian union, including four major reports: Trends in the Transport Sector, Passenger and Freight Transport, Short-Term Trend Survey and Road Accidents. Provides links to international, transportation statistical databases, listed by country.

Government Transportation Financial Statistics Fiscal Years 1985-95. United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Available from: http://www.bts.gov/programs/transtu/govfin/; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

Detailed, multimodal statistics on federal, state and local government expenditures on transportation, including: budgets, grants, revenues, ratios and capital expenditures.

International Comparisons of Transport Statistics. United Kingdom. Department of the Environment, Transportation and the Region. Available from: http://www.transtat.dft.gov.uk/internl/index.htm; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

Covers most of Europe, the European Union , Japan and the United States, including statistics on: general statistics, freight, passenger transport, road & rail infrastructure, road deaths, road traffic on national territory, road vehicles by type, petrol & diesel consumption, fuel taxes, principal trading fleets and the selected output of airlines.

National Transportation Data Archive. U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Available from: http://www.bts.gov/ntda/; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

Covers major transportation statistical databases, including: Aviation Safety Data, Boating Accident Report, Commodity Flow Survey, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, Highway Statistics, Lock Performance Monitoring System, Motor Carrier Financial & Operating Statistics, National Transit Database, National Transportation Statistics, National Personal Transportation Survey, North American Transportation Atlas, On-Time Statistics, State Freight Transportation Profiles, Statistical Handbook of Aviation, Transborder Surface Freight Data, Vehicle Inventory & Use Survey, Vessel Statistics, Visual Database of Transportation Enhancements and Waterborne Commerce Statistics.

National Transportation Statistics. United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Available from http://www.bts.gov/btsprod/nts/; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

Exhaustive multimodal statistics on The Transportation System; Transportation & the Economy; Transportation Safety; Transportation, Energy & the Environment and Modal Profiles.

Statistics Canada. Transportation Statistics. Available from: http://www.statcan.ca; Internet; Accessed 18 February 2001.

Some free, statistical databases covering vehicle registrations &sales, motor carriers, taxi & limo services, employment in the transportation industry and multimodal statistics for revenue & expenses. Selected demographics. Fee based, customized searches available online.

Transport Canada. Transportation Modes. Available from: http://www.tc.gc.ca/en/modes.htm; Internet; Accessed 18 February 2001.

A comprehensive collection of transportation statistics, by the Canadian government, including: air, marine, rail, road and the transportation of dangerous goods.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Transportation and Public Utilities. Available from: http://www.bls.gov/iag/iag.tpu.htm; Internet; Accessed 20 March 2001.

A primary source for employment/labor statistics related to the transportation industry, including: employment rates, unemployment rates, wages, producer price indexes, occupational injuries, layoffs, productivity and employment projections.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Available from: http://www.bts.gov/; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

This is a primary source for domestic and international, multimodal transportation statistics.

U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. International Transportation. Available from http://www.bts.gov/itt/; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

Includes major international, multimodal statistical databases, including: Transborder Surface Freight Data, International Air Passenger & Freight Statistics, Latin American Fact Sheets, Worldwide Transportation Directory and Urban Passenger Transport & Environmental Statistics. Provides links to thirty major domestic and international sites containing multimodal, transportation data, reports and statistics.

United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Journal of Transportation Statistics. Available from http://www.bts.gov/jts/. Accessed July 2002.

Originating in 1998, a full text, online journal with statistics on various transportation topics, indexed.

U.S. Census Bureau. Transportation. Available from: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/transpor.html; Internet; Accessed 18 February 2001.

1992 and 1997 Economic Census for Transportation statistics, including: North American Transportation in Figures; Commodity Flow Survey; Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey; transportation employment statistics and geographic information.

U.S. Department of Commerce. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Industry Accounts Data. Washington, D. C.: The Bureau. http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn2.htm Internet: Accessed July 2002.

Searchable web site for BEA materials on gross domestic product by industry, on the input-output accounts, and on the satellite accounts for transportation and for travel and tourism.

U.S. Department of Commerce. Economics and Statistics Administration. http://www.esa.doc.gov/508/esa/Bureaus.htm. Internet. Accessed July 2002.

Links to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau and StatUSA. Extensive coverage of transportation industries, representing all modes, and covering: economic analyses, demographics, exporting/importing, international trade and science & technology.

United States Department of Transportation. Available from: http://www.dot.gov/; Internet; Accessed 19 March 2001.

The Department of Transportation site is home to its fifteen subordinate bureaus, agencies and offices as well as four transportation specific libraries, including: Office of the Secretary, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, Maritime Administration, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of the Inspector General, Research & Special Programs Administration, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Surface Transportation Board, Transportation Administrative Services Center, United States Coast Guard, The National Transportation Library, DOT Library, FTA National Library and the Hazardous Materials Library. Most bureaus and libraries have their own statistical data sets.

World Health Organization. WHO Library: Virtual Reference Desk. Available from: http://www.who.int/library/reference/desk/statistics/index.en.shtml; Internet; Accessed 20 March 2001.

Includes many statistical databases relative to multimodal transportation safety and health.