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FIGURE C-10 Transportation Services Index: 1990 - 2006

The Transportation Services Index (TSI) is a monthly measure of the volume of services performed by the for-hire transportation sector. The TSI tells us how the output of transportation services has increased or decreased from month to month.

Index: Monthly average of 2000 = 100.0; seasonally adjusted

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Date TSI-Total TSI-Freight TSI-Passenger
Jan-90 67.6113949 66.8942589 70.3056649
  68.3626619 67.7935227 70.48854
  69.4145378 68.8249381 71.6162332
  69.4437931 69.3271101 69.9347566
  68.2628503 67.944831 69.4851712
  69.1121998 68.8631065 70.0836665
  68.6897046 68.3782401 69.8846761
  68.7984764 68.2655314 70.7808216
  69.2608821 69.2493612 69.4163587
  68.7098116 68.2727192 70.3118081
  68.2721534 67.7912883 70.0170622
  69.157582 68.267053 72.2198728
Jan-91 68.0608352 67.5696926 69.7803336
  66.7478562 67.5769239 63.7630406
  66.5917925 67.3790032 63.7579493
  67.0893658 66.4539607 69.3981366
  67.2358849 66.4144184 70.218019
  68.612831 68.4282983 69.3062524
  69.3326596 69.3242032 69.401194
  70.2927902 70.3717375 70.0534758
  71.2890354 71.575181 70.3262221
  70.3574793 70.4090817 70.2157929
  70.7191082 70.8472433 70.3084468
  71.1031241 70.9268408 71.75679
Jan-92 71.4377793 71.7888925 70.3685106
  72.6302004 72.6742405 72.5016148
  72.3338503 72.8735172 70.7012634
  72.5178174 73.7925305 68.4907843
  73.4512679 74.1674961 71.4345264
  73.2424846 73.0184476 74.7159601
  75.1587661 74.6978558 77.5184348
  75.2048091 74.4794691 78.5007636
  73.3948725 73.1123804 75.1149546
  73.8695275 74.3648247 72.866928
  74.364239 74.7734651 73.663008
  74.3333973 74.7916385 73.4677953
Jan-93 77.3663797 78.1905143 75.3386086
  75.4128794 75.8698656 74.5425039
  74.6886476 75.0324087 74.1740593
  75.9561755 76.5966042 74.5077548
  76.7615132 77.3441931 75.5027051
  75.7438817 76.6473645 73.4562034
  75.2106611 75.6377602 74.4306331
  75.2953889 75.5212404 75.1538189
  76.545907 77.0626733 75.4972931
  78.388459 78.8535882 77.512534
  78.7777054 79.5966456 76.8272042
  78.0934229 78.7165526 76.6548271
Jan-94 78.4831336 79.6027847 75.8987029
  78.44005 79.5338164 75.9146248
  80.3289833 81.724229 77.115744
  75.7982131 75.3308305 76.831962
  81.4481299 83.1281846 77.5718563
  82.3605043 84.2915509 77.9135536
  81.9613362 83.4861486 78.4364764
  81.969775 83.8150817 77.7155632
  83.3692187 85.2676066 78.9929957
  84.4591405 86.4967799 79.7609944
  85.3678727 87.5826134 80.2585526
  91.1325733 95.6331226 80.7140381
Jan-95 88.5358477 92.1049935 80.2562336
  87.6722068 91.4023825 79.0317521
  85.4726654 88.0347508 79.4558125
  85.5902839 88.441252 78.927465
  84.5085612 86.8324026 79.0143942
  85.2299432 87.6122315 79.6051521
  85.1880106 87.6065467 79.4857677
  85.6922787 88.2100218 79.7752598
  86.4155435 88.9373626 80.4849174
  84.457091 85.9913429 80.6155449
  84.3894257 85.4948088 81.4471671
  85.0330436 86.2578062 81.8359437
Jan-96 82.8185771 83.5147305 80.8054717
  85.3511755 84.6102656 86.6516834
  86.1095626 86.7263175 84.3123306
  85.9678147 87.0999555 83.0117609
  86.6674106 87.5871824 84.1805964
  86.8999745 87.7155389 84.6431205
  87.3982731 88.3566471 84.8253789
  87.4396918 88.1576502 85.3913539
  87.0375679 87.5431658 85.4587507
  87.8829003 88.744602 85.514208
  88.311635 89.5264425 85.1633892
  88.424437 88.9622185 86.7696715
Jan-97 89.1872069 89.8902377 87.1821683
  90.347484 91.0844575 88.2674798
  89.9753617 90.6454985 88.0320391
  91.0947424 92.5028033 87.6380997
  91.2514997 92.7024854 87.7064544
  91.0629481 92.3879433 87.7741519
  92.8486902 94.7483745 88.391367
  92.8680116 94.5554955 88.8399584
  94.7089869 96.3107704 90.8472348
  94.720778 97.2413265 88.9430765
  94.3365464 96.2590456 89.8014465
  94.947352 97.1071727 89.9166055
Jan-98 95.9195693 98.4386675 90.1353317
  95.735999 98.1100485 90.25438
  96.0257891 98.821876 89.6703713
  97.424753 100.555712 90.3709601
  97.7956861 100.738314 91.1273435
  97.7115733 101.346262 89.6127171
  97.7200765 101.344461 89.6425633
  97.8286769 100.666414 91.3891057
  96.8651408 99.8730752 90.075438
  98.4629812 100.962143 92.7304004
  98.5894335 100.962571 93.1194929
  97.6912867 99.8647278 92.640309
Jan-99 98.1745865 100.058459 93.7295912
  99.1494991 101.766114 93.1461592
  99.9337408 102.761382 93.4834178
  99.7670896 102.112321 94.326368
  99.7955568 102.588321 93.4214134
  99.7756384 102.390304 93.7717553
  100.312064 102.107505 96.0080445
  100.96409 103.17728 95.785099
  102.025832 104.044995 97.2474407
  102.723367 104.290157 98.8847595
  102.832061 104.330986 99.1333598
  102.036059 105.139298 95.0339479
Jan-00 101.595146 104.408424 95.2197659
  102.590131 104.244213 98.851778
  99.4761348 99.7956613 98.770933
  98.2212181 97.8524694 99.0654633
  99.7297488 99.4728227 100.32499
  100.242914 100.25956 100.230629
  99.2425053 98.6660407 100.544127
  100.697911 101.067976 99.8958743
  100.134831 98.8723383 102.954709
  99.5628075 98.6342964 101.642923
  99.9361578 98.943182 102.159761
  98.5704953 97.7830161 100.339046
Jan-01 99.6777924 99.2429961 100.626922
  98.9078192 98.4440922 99.9281817
  99.5841163 99.0613431 100.746204
  99.3580484 98.6387795 100.989316
  100.028556 99.9365447 100.166995
  99.2736218 98.8551747 100.188824
  99.208423 98.3396995 101.185564
  101.46645 100.708887 103.181658
  91.9849056 97.3686378 79.2792806
  93.9778956 98.5910667 83.0778736
  94.6516855 97.6584624 87.5284504
  94.9965137 97.2258744 89.707114
Jan-02 96.1273704 98.0625023 91.5261815
  96.9943817 98.874826 92.5196601
  97.1496179 98.7794363 93.2587138
  97.6912555 99.4589854 93.4769176
  99.2686808 101.301625 94.4291407
  99.2041224 101.416807 93.9402185
  100.320819 103.137971 93.6321914
  100.807234 102.980587 95.6356443
  99.8768289 102.559233 93.5027535
  100.956088 103.183161 95.6553942
  101.475012 103.795372 95.9536521
  102.443262 104.490172 97.56967
Jan-03 101.399106 103.340541 96.771494
  99.4609848 101.851861 93.8096912
  100.400852 103.119122 93.9961755
  99.8612611 103.878477 90.4826135
  99.6620416 102.65439 92.60235
  100.651524 103.470266 93.9761982
  101.969995 103.953826 97.1534196
  101.691769 103.815055 96.5647802
  102.79907 104.484334 98.6516507
  103.546602 105.878637 97.9378245
  103.391832 105.072771 99.2515385
  105.818728 108.100658 100.316354
Jan-04 104.299377 106.405574 99.1981237
  107.258354 109.175862 102.572918
  107.987238 110.202711 102.62581
  108.692319 110.855137 103.44799
  108.252791 110.527552 102.755528
  109.351874 111.388627 104.394335
  109.161909 110.879916 104.934839
  108.732075 110.224214 105.025856
  109.253821 110.751948 105.532608
  109.375519 110.21286 107.207652
  110.317459 111.654914 106.978382
  109.940181 111.21431 106.752246
Jan-05 111.555438 112.826437 108.37242
  109.95052 111.467591 106.186788
  111.624185 112.540552 109.267302
  111.577886 112.510778 109.182512
  112.014452 112.781197 110.008888
  111.430829 112.187589 109.449759
  111.302648 111.632626 110.402753
  111.212754 112.046215 108.982957
  110.825123 110.579588 111.531848
  109.791112 109.927263 109.435807
  111.509402 112.123951 109.850813
  110.51476 110.9046 109.465841
Jan-06 110.892843 111.120797 110.172562
  109.428699 109.663703 108.701478
  110.894098 110.59958 111.016857
  110.517465 109.624626 111.601892
  112.139716 111.898318 112.15384
  111.793789 111.6042 111.72418
  111.458059 111.677225 110.177475
  108.71421 108.068992 108.821236
  110.316748 109.497722 110.69729
  110.298809 109.10863 111.314109

TABLE C-10 Transportation Services Index (TSI): October 2005-October 2006

Index: 2000=100

  TSI total TSI freight TSI passenger
October-05 109.79 109.93 109.44
November-05 111.51 112.12 109.85
December-05 110.51 110.90 109.47
January-06 110.89 111.12 110.17
February-06 109.43 109.66 108.70
March-06 110.89 110.60 111.02
April-06 110.52 109.62 111.60
May-06 112.14 111.90 112.15
June-06 111.79 111.60 111.72
July-06 111.46 111.68 110.18
August-06 108.71 108.07 108.82
September-06 110.32 109.50 110.70
October-06 110.30 109.11 111.31

NOTE: August-October 2006 data are preliminary. See source for balance of data.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Services Index, available at http://www.bts.gov/, as of December 2006.
Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) • U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT)
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