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Table 3-4
U.S. Gross Domestic Product by For-Hire Transportation Industries

($ billions)

  Current Dollars Chained 1992 dollars
1990 1992 1997 1990 1992 1997
Gross Domestic Product 5,743.8 6,244.4 8,110.9 6,136.3 6,244.4 7,269.8
Trucking and warehousing 75.8 82.2 97.9 73.7 82.2 87.3
Transportation by air 39.4 43.0 74.4 39.5 43.0 63.5
Railroad transportation 19.6 22.1 24.1 18.7 22.1 28.2
Incidental services 17.8 19.6 26.8 19.2 19.6 25.1
Transit 9.0 10.9 13.8 10.3 10.9 11.3
Water transportation 9.5 10.3 12.8 10.7 10.3 11.0
Pipelines, except natural gas 5.0 4.9 5.6 4.8 4.9 6.8
Total 176.4 192.8 255.5 176.7 192.8 241.5

SOURCE: U.S.Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Survey of Current Business, November 1998, GDP by Industry table.