Railroads: 240,000 km of mainline routes, all standard 1.435 meter track, no government ownership (1989)

Highways:
total: 6,243,163 km
paved: 3,633,520 km (including 84,865 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,609,643 km (1990)

Inland waterways: 41,009 km of navigable inland channels, exclusive of the Great Lakes (est.)
Pipelines: petroleum 276,000 km; natural gas 331,000 km (1991)

Ports: Anchorage, Baltimore, Beaumont, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Cleveland, Duluth, Freeport, Galveston, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Houston, Jacksonville, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Mobile, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon), Richmond (California), San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, Tampa, Wilmington
Merchant marine: 385 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 12,567,000 GRT/19,511,000 DWT, bulk 23, cargo 36, intermodal 128, liquefied gas 13, passenger-cargo 3, tanker 169, tanker tug-barge 13
note: in addition, there are 219 government-owned vessels

Airports:
total: 14,177
usable: 12,417
with permanent-surface runways: 4,820
with runways over 3,659 m: 63
with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 325
with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 2,524

NOTE: The information regarding United States on this page is re-published from the 1995 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of United States Transportation 1995 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about United States Transportation 1995 should be addressed to the CIA.