Table 12-1: Number of Transportation Vehicles/Equipment, United States

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Table 12 - 1
Number of Transportation Vehicles/Equipment, United States
Table summary
This table displays the results of Number of Transportation Vehicles/Equipment. The information is grouped by Hierarchies (appearing as row headers), 1990, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 (appearing as column headers).
Hierarchies 1990 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Air 198,283 190,965 193,977 194,443 206,951 222,159 220,726 214,546 213,973 213,864 219,522 223,525 220,497 229,860 227,500 231,046 230,555 227,938 215,957 206,660 211,084
Commercial aircraftFootnote 1 6,083 6,865 7,077 7,043 7,451 7,859 7,826 7,746 7,673 7,564 7,764 7,686 7,637 7,732 7,337 7,169 7,185 7,168 6,914 6,733 6,676
General aviation 192,200 184,100 186,900 187,400 199,500 214,300 212,900 206,800 206,300 206,300 211,758 215,839 212,860 222,128 220,163 223,877 223,370 220,770 209,043 199,927 204,408
Road 193,057,376 205,427,212 210,441,249 211,580,033 215,496,003 220,461,056 225,821,241 235,331,382 234,62,4135 236,760,033 243,010,550 247,421,120 250,844,644 254,403,081 255,917,664 254,212,611 250,070,048 253,774,453 253,639,386 255,876,822 260,350,938
Personal vehicles 186,234,513 198,022,288 202,733,853 203,799,159 207,048,193 211,940,853 217,052,467 226,724,159 225,936,138 228,226,595 234,043,912 238,132,068 241,203,678 242,816,626 244,201,081 242,397,403 238,453,943 233,841,422 233,760,558 236,010,230 248,572,955
Passenger cars 133,700,496 128,386,775 129,728,341 129,748,704 131,838,538 132,432,044 133,621,420 137,633,467 135,920,677 135,669,897 136,430,651 136,568,083 135,399,945 196,491,176 196,762,927 193,979,654 190,202,782 192,513,278 183,171,882 184,497,490 187,554,928
Motorcycles 4,259,462 3,897,191 3,871,599 3,826,373 3,879,450 4,152,433 4,346,068 4,903,056 5,004,156 5,370,035 5,767,934 6,227,146 6,678,958 7,138,476 7,752,926 7,929,724 8,009,503 8,330,210 8,454,939 8,404,687 8,417,718
Light trucks 48,274,555 65,738,322 69,133,913 70,224,082 71,330,205 75,356,376 79,084,979 84,187,636 85,011,305 87,186,663 91,845,327 95,336,839 99,124,775 39,186,974 39,685,228 40,488,025 40,241,658 41,328,144 50,588,676 51,512,740 52,600,309
Buses 626,987 685,503 694,781 697,548 715,540 728,777 746,125 749,548 760,717 776,550 795,274 807,053 821,959 834,436 843,308 841,993 846,051 666,064 764,509 864,549 872,027
Commercial freight vehicles 6,195,876 6,719,421 7,012,615 7,083,326 7,732,270 7,791,426 8,022,649 7,857,675 7,927,280 7,756,888 8,171,364 8,481,999 8,819,007 10,752,019 10,873,275 10,973,215 10,770,054 10,270,693 10,659,380 10,597,356 10,905,956
Single-unit trucks 4,486,981 5,023,670 5,266,029 5,293,358 5,734,925 5,762,864 5,926,030 5,703,501 5,650,619 5,848,523 6,161,028 6,395,240 6,649,337 8,116,672 8,288,046 8,356,097 8,217,189 7,819,055 8,190,286 8,126,007 8,328,759
Tractors 1,708,895 1,695,751 1,746,586 1,789,968 1,997,345 2,028,562 2,096,619 2,154,174 2,276,661 1,908,365 2,010,335 2,086,759 2,169,670 2,635,347 2,585,229 2,617,118 2,552,865 2,451,638 2,469,094 2,471,349 2,577,197
Rail 679,918 604,333 592,163 590,237 598,172 601,717 582,454 522,090 501,525 489,902 497,275 499,062 500,657 485,749 475,755 441,713 423,179 406,537 407,923 400,736 399,405
Cars 660,765 585,208 572,595 570,221 577,566 581,132 562,048 501,944 480,647 468,686 474,984 476,025 476,606 461,336 451,474 417,394 399,004 382,000 382,731 375,285 373,061
Freight cars 658,902 583,486 570,865 568,493 575,604 579,140 560,154 499,860 477,751 467,063 473,773 474,839 475,415 460,172 450,297 416,180 397,730 380,699 380,641 373,838 371,642
Intercity passenger train cars 1,863 1,722 1,730 1,728 1,962 1,992 1,894 2,084 2,896 1,623 1,211 1,186 1,191 1,164 1,177 1,214 1,274 1,301 2,090 1,447 1,419
Locomotives 19,153 19,125 19,568 20,016 20,606 20,585 20,406 20,146 20,878 21,216 22,291 23,037 24,051 24,413 24,281 24,319 24,175 24,537 25,192 25,451 26,344
Freight 18,835 18,812 19,269 19,684 20,261 20,256 20,028 19,745 20,506 20,774 22,015 22,779 23,732 24,143 24,003 24,045 23,893 24,250 24,707 25,033 25,916
Intercity Passenger 318 313 299 332 345 329 378 401 372 442 276 258 319 270 278 274 282 287 485 418 428
Transit 93,430 116,341 93,675 98,381 100,346 103,308 106,136 111,266 112,104 114,932 117,402 121,912 125,647 125,607 129,286 136,117 135,674 136,614 130,495 136,981 132,511
Transit railcars 16,459 16,378 16,579 16,715 16,892 17,071 17,114 17,605 17,928 18,102 18,610 19,045 19,153 19,303 19,819 20,242 20,374 23,882 19,755 20,372 20,172
Water transport 11,028,476 11,766,974 11,911,623 12,347,309 12,600,758 12,772,958 12,816,449 12,910,748 12,887,793 12,827,166 12,813,992 12,975,666 12,779,512 12,908,373 12,725,249 12,753,657 12,471,441 12,206,498 12,134,517 12,045,608 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Passenger vessels 10,996,253 11,734,710 11,87,7938 12,313,459 12,566,400 12,738,734 12,782,425 12,876,620 12,854,315 12,794,862 12,781,709 12,942,645 12,746,355 12,875,788 12,693,117 12,721,758 12,439,147 12,174,149 12,102,134 12,013,683 11,804,181
Recreational boats 10,996,253 11,734,710 11,877,938 12,312,982 12,565,930 12,738,271 12,782,143 12,876,346 12,854,054 12,794,616 12,781,476 12,942,414 12,746,126 12,875,568 12,692,892 12,721,541 12,438,926 12,173,935 12,101,936 12,013,496 11,804,002
Passenger cruise 636 509 495 477 470 463 282 274 261 246 233 231 229 220 225 217 221 214 198 187 179
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Freight vessels 32,223 32,264 33,685 33,850 34,358 34,224 34,024 34,128 33,478 32,304 32,283 33,021 33,157 32,585 32,132 31,899 32,294 32,349 32,383 31,925 32,102
Liquid 4,213 4,163 4,197 4,118 4,087 4,115 4,146 4,242 4,176 4,031 4,069 4,151 4,250 4,467 4,560 4,561 4,564 4,502 4,627 4,694 4,869
Dry bulk carrier 81 78 72 72 67 68 73 73 71 74 75 77 69 64 65 65 60 60 55 54 54
Other dry cargo 27,929 28,023 29,416 29,660 30,204 30,041 29,805 29,813 29,231 28,199 28,139 28,793 28,838 28,054 27,507 27,273 27,670 27,787 27,701 27,177 27,179
Container 89 78 75 82 77 74 74 68 73 74 83 70 77 78 76 79 76 67 68 74 71
Specialized carrier 142 180 180 188 217 233 294 582 598 611 633 622 608 606 580 582 578 566 572 578 593
General cargo 588 390 386 350 353 320 296 243 247 210 196 200 192 183 173 165 168 158 138 138 128
Dry cargo barge 27,110 27,375 28,775 29,040 29,557 29,414 29,141 28,920 28,313 27,304 27,227 27,901 27,961 27,187 26,678 26,447 26,848 26,996 26,923 26,387 26,387
Miscellaneous types 6,378 6,415 6,451 6,542 6,660 6,568 6,409 6,723 6,771 6,779 7,060 7,058 7,006 7,166 7,254 7,293 7,241 7,242 7,167 7,118 7,168
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Offshore vessels 1,168 1,288 1,274 1,369 1,423 1,470 1,414 1,573 1,591 1,609 1,746 1,768 1,721 1,810 1,830 1,856 1,817 1,784 1,668 1,645 1,692
Towboats 5,210 5,127 5,177 5,173 5,237 5,098 4,995 5,150 5,180 5,170 5,314 5,290 5,285 5,356 5,424 5,437 5,424 5,458 5,499 5,473 5,476
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Notes:
Air: For Canada and the United States, on-demand air taxis are included in commercial aircraft and are excluded from general aviation. For the United States, this is different from the way the data are sometimes presented. For Mexico, air taxis are included in the total for commercial aircraft and are not identifiable as jet and non-jet in the registration files.

Road: Personal vehicles, light trucks: Mexicos total for personal vehicles includes light trucks (such as sports utility vehicles, pickups and minivans). However, it is not possible to further disaggregate light trucks. The U.S. total for personal vehicles does include light trucks, and light trucks are also identified as a separate vehicle category. Mexico may also include light trucks such as pickups in its total for commercial freight vehicles. Canadas total for personal vehicles does not include light trucks. However, light trucks are included in Canadas overall road total.

Water Transport: Freight vessels: The total for freight vessels represents the sum of the liquid, dry bulk carrier, other dry cargo and miscellaneous type vessel categories. Mexican data for container and tank barge vessels have not been included in its total because data for these types of vessels are nonexistent.

Air and general aviation: Rounded to the nearest 100 prior to 2003 for commercial air, and prior to 2000 for general aviation.

Road: All U.S. road data represent registered vehicles, except local motor buses which are active passenger vehicles. Totals for all road vehicles comprise all types of buses including intercity, charter, school and local motor bus. Local motor buses are also included in the total number of transit vehicles. Passenger cars include taxis. Light trucks include vans, pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. Road data for 1990-2006 use the categories passenger car and light truck. Road data for 2007-09 are categorized differently under a new methodology which is not comparable to that of previous years. For 2007-09, FHWA has changed the Passenger car category to Light-duty Vehicles, short wheel base, which includes passenger cars, light trucks, vans, and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) with a wheel base equal to or less than 121 inches. For 2007-09, FHWA has changed the Light truck category to the new category Light duty vehicle, long wheel base, which includes large passenger cars, pickup trucks, vans, and SUVs with a wheel base longer than 121 inches.

Rail: Freight rail cars (except those owned by car companies and shippers) and locomotives are Class I railroads only.

Transit: The total for U.S. transit includes transit rail, local motor bus as well as trolley buses, ferries and transit for the disabled. Transit rail includes commuter rail, heavy rail and light rail. The number of commuter railcars includes locomotives. Transit data for 1996 and later years are not comparable to the data for earlier years or to the data published in previous editions of this table due to different data sources used.

Freight vessels: Represents U.S. flagged vessels. U.S. flagged vessels are U.S. operated but not necessarily owned.
Sources:
U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 1-11.

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