After merging with Continental Airlines, United Airlines saw its on$-$time arrival rate drop dramatically, at one point having just $77\mathrm{.}5\%$ on$-$time arrivals. On$-$time performance is constantly measured and discussed in the airline industry$$in fact, it is one of the industry$$s most important performance measures. After seeing the low on$-$time performance, United managers encouraged employees to change their behaviors, putting customer service first. Several months later, $85\%$ of United$$s flights were on time.

By $2012,$ the Department of Defense said that it was planning on decreasing the amount of time it spent hiring external civilians, reducing that time to $80$ days.

The Federal Highway Infrastructure Program is devoted to safety and determines its success by looking at the number of fatalities per $100$ million vehicle$$miles of travel.