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Figure 5-2 For-Hire Transportation Services Contribution to U.S. Gross Domestic Product by Mode: 2013

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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(billions of current dollars)

  Amount Percent
Truck 132 27.3
Other transportation and support activities 109 22.6
Air 80 16.5
Warehousing and Storage 50 10.3
Rail 44 9.1
Transit 31 6.4
Pipeline 21 4.4
Water 16 3.4
For-Hire Transportation Total 481 100.0

NOTE: Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Industry Economic Accounts, Interactive tables, available at http://www.bea.gov/industry/index.htm as of July 2015.