Transportation guide offered

Overdrive Staff | July 12, 2010

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has released “State Transportation Statistics 2009 (STS),” a reference guide to transportation data by state.

The seventh annual STS consists of 112 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.

For the first time, STS is available as a Web-only product; STS 2009 can be viewed at www.bts.gov.

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