Did you know...

• The U.S. has:

  - 3.9 million miles of roads and highways

  - 5,400 public airports

  - 200,000 miles of freight and passenger railroad track

  - 5,800 miles of urban mass transit track with more than 2,300 stations

  - 3,600 waterport terminals

• The nation's transportation infrastructure has a value of $1.75 trillion - about 12 percent of the value of the nation's total productive assets. Its value is 10 times that of all computers used by American businesses and eight times the value of the entire telephone and telecommunications infrastructure!

• Each year, America's transportation network makes possible more than 4 trillion miles of personal travel - an average of 15,000 miles of travel for each American - and the movement of more than $6 trillion worth of freight!

• Public investment in the 44,000-mile Interstate Highway System and other highway improvements over the past 40 years have helped saved an estimated 2 million lives, or roughly the population of Miami, Florida.

• Transportation construction is a $160 billion per year U.S. industry that employs more than 1.6 million people.

• Every $1 billion invested by the public in government-financed road improvements since 1950 has, to this point, helped prevent 1,400 premature deaths and 50,000 injuries and saved American society over $2 billion in health care, insurance, lost wages and productivity costs.

• Each $1 billion spent on the construction of the nation’s infrastructure creates approximately 35,000 jobs.