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Table 12-B Transportation Expenditure by Mode

Friday, January 6, 2012

Table 12-B Transportation Expenditure by Mode

Thousands of Chained 2005 Dollars

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  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Total 196,906,846 200,211,069 205,597,072 212,728,471 229,802,147 225,872,509 249,138,729 257,241,469 262,650,245 251,384,358 243,085,735 245,346,731 202,387,028
Highway 123,809,934 127,196,158 129,720,236 135,261,514 141,496,122 145,323,459 149,950,383 153,640,987 152,911,855 148,176,870 147,324,680 150,333,879 104,290,935
Transit 34,994,552 35,057,242 36,726,461 37,708,462 49,371,112 42,208,557 45,997,080 47,818,517 45,760,652 47,218,759 41,899,585 42,060,096 44,510,517
Railroads 1,441,590 1,379,954 1,534,659 1,431,080 570,856 943,245 888,703 1,522,131 1,370,105 1,621,690 1,472,000 1,476,508 1,394,771
Air 26,459,780 26,540,823 27,281,472 28,268,142 27,813,341 27,298,746 38,741,234 42,556,466 37,710,436 41,442,036 40,857,654 39,939,063 39,972,742
Water 9,103,387 9,030,666 9,371,076 9,232,380 9,706,402 9,251,580 12,529,370 9,238,466 12,989,091 11,535,657 10,307,111 10,385,401 11,016,546
Pipeline 32,988 45,645 43,505 46,827 47,897 55,749 43,651 55,171 71,704 77,223 82,000 86,797 81,240
General Support 1,064,615 960,582 919,664 780,066 796,418 791,172 988,307 2,409,731 11,836,402 1,312,123 1,142,705 1,064,989 1,120,277

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.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, "National Income Product Accounts Tables," table 3.9.4 available at http://www.bea.gov as of November 2009.