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Table 6 Share of Own-Source and Supporting Transportation Revenue in Total Government Revenue

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Table 6 Share of Own-Source and Supporting Transportation Revenue in Total Government Revenue

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  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total 12.27 11.86 11.53 11.67 12.66 11.68 13.12 14.93 13.68 11.50 11.86 11.48 11.02 13.61 15.97
Own-Source Revenue 7.87 7.58 7.34 7.62 8.40 7.70 7.96 9.02 7.93 6.73 7.05 6.71 6.25 7.45 10.16
Highway 5.60 5.64 5.36 5.38 6.02 5.46 5.51 6.26 5.49 4.74 4.98 4.63 4.35 5.07 6.81
Transit 0.72 0.68 0.66 0.64 0.65 0.65 0.70 0.79 0.72 0.61 0.60 0.66 0.53 0.67 1.00
Railroads 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Air 1.22 0.93 1.01 1.30 1.44 1.35 1.48 1.69 1.46 1.15 1.22 1.18 1.13 1.41 1.95
Water 0.32 0.33 0.31 0.29 0.29 0.25 0.27 0.27 0.26 0.23 0.24 0.24 0.24 0.30 0.40
Pipeline 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01
General Support 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Supporting Revenue 4.40 4.28 4.19 4.05 4.25 3.97 5.16 5.92 5.75 4.77 4.81 4.77 4.77 6.15 5.81
Highway 2.24 2.26 2.22 2.14 2.29 2.33 2.63 2.99 2.62 2.33 2.32 2.46 2.67 3.58 2.15
Transit 1.20 1.11 1.08 1.03 1.14 1.16 1.49 1.59 1.46 1.29 1.28 1.18 1.07 1.29 1.75
Railroads 0.09 0.08 0.08 0.07 0.03 0.05 0.05 0.09 0.07 0.08 0.07 0.07 0.06 0.07 0.12
Air 0.54 0.56 0.56 0.58 0.56 0.19 0.70 0.87 0.67 0.72 0.76 0.69 0.63 0.79 1.15
Water 0.29 0.24 0.23 0.21 0.22 0.22 0.27 0.27 0.32 0.31 0.33 0.32 0.29 0.36 0.55
Pipeline 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.01
General Support 0.04 0.03 0.03 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.10 0.60 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.05 0.09

Note: Local government receipts and outlays for highway are not included in 2009.

The denominator for this percentage is Total government revenues, used for all purposes, including federal and state and local revenues.

Sources:
Executive Office of the President of the United States, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), "Budget of the United States Government: Public Budget Database," Washington, D.C., available at http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/ as of February 2012.
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., available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/browse.html as of February 2012.

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 February 2012.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), "National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) Tables," Taxes on Corporate Income by Industry, available at http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/SelectTable.asp?Selected=N as of February 2012.
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 February 2012.

U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Surface Transportation Board, "Statistics of Class I Freight Railroads," Annual issues, available at http://www.stb.dot.gov/econdata.nsf/66a333195e0491c885256e82005ad319?OpenView as of February 2012.
U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), "Budget in Brief," Washington DC, Annual issues, available at http://www.faa.gov/about/budget/ as of February 2012.
Air Transport Association, "Airline Industry Taxes and Fees," U.S. Aviation Excise Taxes and User Fees, available at http://www.airlines.org/economics/taxes/ as of February 2012.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Performance and Accountability Report, "Principal Financial Statements, " available at http://www.epa.gov/ocfo/par/index.htm as of February 2012.
U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), "Airport Financial Report," Form 127, available at http://cats.airports.faa.gov/ as of February 2012.

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 February 2012.