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Source: World Bank, Doing Business project. Note: Cost measures the fees levied on an imported 20-foot container in U.S. dollars (USD). They include costs for documents, administrative fees for customs clearance and technical control, customs broker fees, terminal handling charges and inland transport. The cost measure does not include tariffs

Source: adapted from Global Insight, Inc., TRANSEARCH database, and U.S. Department of Transportation Freight Analysis Framework data. Cargo value and weight are related to the mode of transportation used and are usually the outcome of a balancing act between cost, capacity, and level of service. Freight offers a whole spectrum

A movement between locations A and B involves three cost components in the assessment of the related transport costs:

Fixed costs are incurred to make transportation services available and involve the provision of infrastructure, rights of way, terminals, and the control equipment for their operations. They do not change with the level of traffic but provide a level of capacity. Operating costs (or variable) are incurred when traffic takes

Source: BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Transportation accounts for about 15% of all consumer expenditures in the United States. Vehicle operations are the largest transport expenditure, accounting for more than half of household transport expenditures. This particularly includes gasoline and insurance, both around 30% of operational expenditures.

Source: adapted from EPA. The environmental dimensions of transportation sequentially involve: Causes. Two major factors are contributing to the level of transport activities. Economics refers to the general level of development, income, and transport supply. An advanced economy is likely to generate more transportation activities per capita than a developing

Source: OECD/ITF. Worldwide, more than 1 million people are killed, and several million are injured each year due to transport accidents. Still, since the 1970s, the fatality rate has substantially declined. In many cases, the fatality rate has been cut by more than half (five times less in some instances,

Source: adapted from D.C. Richards (2010) Relationship between Speed and Risk of Fatal Injury: Pedestrians and Car Occupants, Department for Transport: London, Transport Research Laboratory. The probability of a pedestrian fatality in the event of a collision can be related to many factors, but the speed of the vehicle is

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Each transport mode involves a level of risk. Road transport is responsible for much more fatalities than any other mode since nearly 95% of all transport fatalities concern road. Among those fatalities, nearly 50% are drivers, 30% are passengers, 15% are pedestrians, 4% are motorcyclists,