PRODUCER PRICES OF FOR-HIRE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
Producer Price Index: Transportation Services by Mode (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Producer Price Index: Transportation Services by Mode (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Producer prices reflect prices charged to anyone, including consumers when the firm also serves as a retailer. Actual prices to users of transportation services will differ due to substitution between domestic and foreign markets, and substitution between user- and market-provided services.
Price Index (Jun-1993=100)
Oct-00
Oct-01
Air transportation
145.9
152.9
Air transportation percent change from same month previous year
14.58
4.79
Water transportation
126.9
134.4
Water transportation percent change from same month previous year
8.40
5.93
Motor freight transportation and warehousing
121.4
123.8
Motor freight transportation and warehousing percent change from same month previous year
5.11
1.98
Pipelines, excluding natural gas
106.4
115.5
Pipelines, excluding natural gas percent change from same month previous year
4.48
8.57
Railroad transportation
103.9
108.8
Railroad transportation percent change from same month previous year
1.59
4.78
NOTES: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
Data from July 2001 to October 2001 are preliminary. The original data for the indices in this table have different base periods. For comparability, the indices have been adjusted to have a common base period (1993).
