Transportation
•Number Employed:
61,834
•Major Companies: United Airlines, Frontier Airlines, RTD, Union
Pacific/Southern Pacific Railroad, FedEx, UPS
•Major Locations: Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs
•Commercial Service Airports: 17
•General Aviation Airports: 62
•Miles of Highway: 9,000
•Miles of Railroad Tracks: 3,000
•Additional Information and Statistics:
- Denver International Airport is the nation's seventh-busiest airport.
- Sixth runway, 16,000 feet long, was completed in September 2003 and
is the longest in the U.S.
- Twenty-two airlines offer regular service to DIA, serving more than
35.6 million passengers in 2002
- RTD, Colorado's largest provider of mass transit, serves 41 cities in
seven counties along 200 separate routes, including 17-plus miles of light
rail
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