Petroleum-derived fuels were involved in over half of transportation-related accidents, and these accounted for the majority of petroleum fuel releases.
While huge amounts of investment are supporting the rapid growth of the road network, another half of all transportation investment goes toward building public transit systems including bus, mass rapid transit, and rail.
Now that all 50 states have beat a June 30 deadline by winning approval for projects that will use more than half of that transportation money, worth $16.4 billion, it is clear that the stimulus program will continue that pattern of spending disproportionately on rural areas.
On average, GHESKIO pays half of the transportation cost, and subsidizes the full amount for patients who miss clinic visits for economic reasons.
"I said no, not because I would have to clean up, but because the sum was too small and I would have to spent half of it at transportation".
Around half of all surface-transportation funding and 20% of mass-transit funding comes from the states, many of which face budgetary woes of their own.
The federal stimulus law required the states to reach agreements by June 29 on how to spend at least half of the main pot of transportation money or risk losing some of it, and federal officials announced Thursday that all 50 states had beaten the deadline.
Mr. Philp said the farmer would end up paying half of his revenue in transportation costs.
More than half of the growth in transportation consumption has been among light trucks.
Nearly half of the oil used for transportation is used as diesel fuel to power 18-wheelers.
However, the package of transportation aid they received was barely half of what they wanted.
