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Table 12-A Transportation Expenditure by Mode

Friday, January 6, 2012

Table 12-A Transportation Expenditure by Mode

Thousands of Current Dollars

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  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Total 143,255,637 149,133,221 155,953,603 163,543,521 182,318,129 186,374,184 211,179,952 223,807,795 238,092,447 237,636,148 243,085,735 257,226,420 221,707,245
Highway 90,075,441 94,745,874 98,397,988 103,987,699 112,258,778 119,910,746 127,103,943 133,672,268 138,614,597 140,073,077 147,324,680 157,613,045 114,252,805
Transit 25,459,587 26,113,438 27,858,489 28,989,888 39,169,559 34,827,547 38,988,965 41,603,545 41,482,031 44,636,365 41,899,585 44,096,646 48,750,370
Railroads 1,048,800 1,027,900 1,164,100 1,100,200 452,900 778,300 753,300 1,324,300 1,242,000 1,533,000 1,472,000 1,548,000 1,528,000
Air 19,250,284 19,769,728 20,694,088 21,732,265 22,066,270 22,525,014 32,838,620 37,025,402 34,184,510 39,175,571 40,857,654 41,872,912 43,790,938
Water 6,622,987 6,726,762 7,108,336 7,097,762 7,700,768 7,633,757 10,620,395 8,037,742 11,774,611 10,904,772 10,307,111 10,888,262 12,068,846
Pipeline 24,000 34,000 33,000 36,000 38,000 46,000 37,000 48,000 65,000 73,000 82,000 91,000 89,000
General Support 774,539 715,518 697,602 599,707 631,854 652,820 837,729 2,096,538 10,729,699 1,240,363 1,142,705 1,116,555 1,227,286

Note: Local government outlays for highway are not included in 2007.

Sources:
Executive Office of the President of the United States, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), "Budget of the United States Government: Appendix," Washington, D.C., annual issues, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/browse.html as of September, 2009.

Executive Office of the President of the United States, Office of Management and Budget, "Budget of the United States Government: Analytical Perspective, Detailed Functional Tables, Washington, D.C., Annual issues, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/browse.html as of September 2009.

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), "Highway Statistics," Washington, D.C., Annual issues, available at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/hsspubs.htm, as of September 2009.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, "State and Local Government Finances," Washington, D.C., Annual issues, available at http://www.census.gov/govs/www/estimate.html as of September 2009.

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), "National Transit Database (NTD)," Washington, D.C., Annual issues, available at http://www.ntdprogram.gov/ntdprogram/data.htm as of October 2009.