Data item | Order of magnitude |
Number of motor buses | 104 |
Class 1 railroad miles | 93058 |
Average walking speed (ft/s) | 5 |
Miles of collector roadway | 315574 |
Number of amtrak locomotives | 436 |
Number of registered vehicles | 272.48 million |
Airline revenue passenger- miles | 80.5 million |
Miles of navigable waterway | 25000 |
Total railroad capital expenditures | 3.57 billion dollars |
Vehicle miles of travel | 3.18323 trillion |
Number of public use airports | 5087 |
Unlinked transit passenger trips | 9.89 billion |
Passengers using Amtrak's busiest station | 650000 |
Number of highway bridges | 600000 |
Weekday morning headway of bus on route 66(min) | 23 |
Maximum capacity of a megaship (in twenty-foot equivalent units) | 21100 |
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