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The amount of fuel wasted in traffic annually in the 75 major urban areas studied in TTI's Urban Mobility Study would fill 114 supertankers.
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Transit Benefit Calculator: How
did we develop these numbers?
- A federal surface transportation investment of $1 billion dollars
results in 47,576 direct, indirect, and induced jobs for one year.
This federal investment result assumes a state or local match
equal to 25 percent of the federal investment. An investment of
$1 billion in surface transportation from state or local funds
or from federal funds excluding a state and local match would,
therefore, result in 38,060 jobs. This job multiplier is for investments
that would be representative of the types of uses for which federal
funds are eligible and are the total number of jobs created throughout
the U.S., not just those in the local community.
Source: Based on Construction Employment Model, Version 1.1.
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
Office of Policy, 2001
- Source: Public Transportation and the Nation’s Economy: A Quantitative
Analysis of Public Transportation’s Economic Impact. Washington,
DC: Cambridge Systematic’s, October 1999. Available at http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/documents/
vary.pdf
- Source: Public Transportation and the Nation’s Economy: A Quantitative
Analysis of Public Transportation’s Economic Impact. Washington,
DC: Cambridge Systematic’s, October 1999. Available at http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/documents/
vary.pdf
- Source: Public Transportation and the Nation’s Economy: A Quantitative
Analysis of Public Transportation’s Economic Impact. Washington,
DC: Cambridge Systematic’s, October 1999. Available at http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/documents/
vary.pdf
- Source: Public Transportation and the Nation’s Economy: A Quantitative
Analysis of Public Transportation’s Economic Impact. Washington,
DC: Cambridge Systematic’s, October 1999. Available at http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/documents/
vary.pdf
- The average number of Btu used by all transit modes using all
types of fuel (gasoline, diesel fuel, electricity, and alternate
fuels) per passenger mile in 1998 was 2,740.8 This equals a net
energy value of 0.023750 gallons of automotive gasoline. The average
Btu used by private vehicles that would replace all transit vehicles
to carry all transit trips per passenger mile in 1998 was 5,254.8.
This equals a net energy value of 0.045535. The difference between
gallons of automotive gasoline equivalent fuel per passenger mile
on transit of 0.023750 gallons minus gallons of fuel per passenger
mile for replacement private vehicles of 0.045545 is 0.021785
gallons per passenger mile.
Source: Shapiro, Robert J, Kevin A.
Hassett, and Frank S. Arnold, Conserving Energy and Preserving
the Environment: The Role of Public Transportation. July 2002.
Available at http://www.apta.com/research/info/online/shapiro.cfm
0 gallons minus gallons of fuel per passenger mile for replacement
private vehicles of 0.045545 is 0.021785 gallons per passenger
mile. Source: Shapiro, Robert J, Kevin A. Hassett, and Frank S.
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