Feds issue annual state transportation report
The new 2011 edition of State Transportation Statistics includes a wide range of state-by-state information, such as the calculations showing which states had the highest and lowest number of highway traffic fatalities per 100,000 population in 2010.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2011 edition of the federal government’s State Transportation Statistics report is now available.
The web-only reference guide provides transportation data for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It was released on Aug. 24 by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
The report includes a wide range of state-by-state information, such as the calculations showing which states had the highest and lowest number of highway traffic fatalities per 100,000 population in 2010.
The ninth annual State Transportation Statistics consists of 115 tables of state data on infrastructure, safety, freight transportation, passenger travel, registered vehicles and vehicle-miles traveled, economy and finance, and energy and environment, plus a U.S. “Fast Facts” page.
The guide is available here.
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