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Table 8.13
Summary Statistics on Buses by Type, 1970-98
Transit buses:
American Public Transit Association, 2000 Transit Fact Book, Washington, DC, 2000,
p. 83, and annual.
Intercity buses:
1970-80 - AmericanBus Association, 1984 Annual Report, Washington, DC, and annual.
1985 - U.S. Department of Transportation, Transportation Systems Center, Natiovral
Transportation Statistics, Cambridge, MA, August 1990, Figure 5, p. 8, and annual.
1990-98 - Estimated as 3 8% of commercial buses (less transit motor buses). Commercial
bus total found in Highway Statistics 1998, Table MV-10, and annual.
School buses:
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway AdministrationJYighway Statistics
1998, Washington, DC, 1999, Table MV- 1 ,O and annual.
Vehicle-miles and Passenger-miles
Transit buses:
American Public Transit Association, 2000 Transit Fact Book, Washington, DC, 2000,
pp. 70, 78, and annual.
In tercity buses :
1970-80 - American Bus Association, Annual Report, Washington, DC, annual.
1985-98 - Eno TransportationFoundation, Transportation in America 1999, Seventeenth
edition, Lansdowne, VA, 2000, p. 47.
1990-98 vehicle travel - Estimated using passenger travel and an average load factor of
23.2.
School buses:
1970-80 - U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration,Highway
Statistics 1984, Washington, DC, Table VM-1, p. 175, and annual.
198.5 - U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs
Administration, National Transportation Statistics, 1989, Figure 2, p. 7, and annual.
1990-98 - National Safety Council, Accident Facts, 1999 Edition, Chicago, IL, pp. 94,
and annual. Note: In the 1999 Edition the National Safety Council discontinued
publishing the passenger-miles data. There is currently no other known source for
these data.
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