Over the period of consideration, the amount of rail passenger miles traveled during August – a peak time for rail travel in the U.S. – increased steadily, with few fluctuations. Rail passenger travel peaked in August 2019, where roughly 287 billion rail passenger miles were traveled in that given month.
Rail passenger miles traveled in the U.S. between August 2010 and 2019 (in billions)
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Bureau of Transportation Statistics. (August 5, 2020). Rail passenger miles traveled in the U.S. between August 2010 and 2019 (in billions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142453/rail-passenger-miles-united-states/
Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "Rail passenger miles traveled in the U.S. between August 2010 and 2019 (in billions)." Chart. August 5, 2020. Statista. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142453/rail-passenger-miles-united-states/
Bureau of Transportation Statistics. (2020). Rail passenger miles traveled in the U.S. between August 2010 and 2019 (in billions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: April 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142453/rail-passenger-miles-united-states/
Bureau of Transportation Statistics. "Rail Passenger Miles Traveled in The U.S. between August 2010 and 2019 (in Billions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 Aug 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142453/rail-passenger-miles-united-states/
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Rail passenger miles traveled in the U.S. between August 2010 and 2019 (in billions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142453/rail-passenger-miles-united-states/ (last visited April 26, 2024)
Rail passenger miles traveled in the U.S. between August 2010 and 2019 (in billions) [Graph], Bureau of Transportation Statistics, August 5, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1142453/rail-passenger-miles-united-states/