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Table 8-A Transportation Revenue Generated from Transportation by Type and Mode

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Table 8-A Transportation Revenue Generated from Transportation by Type and Mode

Thousands of Current Dollars

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  1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Total 116,983,166 119,348,418 123,460,680 129,587,329 144,641,036 142,986,629 138,657,952 143,199,316 148,393,307 154,628,620 169,425,277 177,521,926 184,202,855 182,798,455 173,995,407
Own-Source Revenue 93,698,181 97,006,316 100,646,145 111,810,474 128,170,365 127,294,708 124,834,798 130,570,280 131,563,245 135,422,370 147,473,934 153,854,114 162,820,766 162,384,809 155,728,794
Highway 66,716,181 72,166,771 73,528,234 79,024,138 91,770,524 90,274,851 86,397,408 90,615,570 91,137,751 95,321,382 104,225,307 106,040,629 113,296,724 110,463,711 104,379,093
Transit 8,574,984 8,753,000 9,006,316 9,416,540 9,848,675 10,670,125 10,922,357 11,447,739 11,906,149 12,377,271 12,512,438 15,116,629 13,873,891 14,591,319 15,291,710
Railroads 36,000 2,000 0 0 0 1,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Air 14,496,784 11,876,379 13,856,338 19,008,483 22,026,160 22,235,041 23,206,728 24,491,836 24,173,250 23,091,911 25,602,220 27,028,105 29,383,536 30,702,265 29,817,855
Water 3,832,232 4,168,166 4,216,257 4,323,313 4,486,006 4,057,691 4,250,305 3,937,135 4,279,095 4,568,806 5,069,968 5,589,752 6,190,615 6,550,515 6,142,136
Pipeline 35,000 31,000 30,000 29,000 30,000 30,000 37,000 52,000 57,000 55,000 56,000 58,000 60,000 63,000 78,000
General Support 7,000 9,000 9,000 9,000 9,000 26,000 21,000 26,000 10,000 8,000 8,000 21,000 16,000 14,000 20,000
Revenue Diverted to Other Uses 23,284,985 22,342,102 22,814,534 17,776,855 16,470,671 15,691,921 13,823,155 12,629,036 16,830,062 19,206,250 21,951,343 23,667,812 21,382,089 20,413,646 18,266,613
Highway 16,636,475 14,650,866 14,659,251 9,977,064 9,334,589 8,712,393 8,609,514 7,713,576 10,625,092 10,824,769 11,402,321 11,121,702 11,535,851 10,219,059 10,729,647
Transit 54,535 63,778 69,324 70,000 59,000 42,000 3,000 19,000 38,000 64,000 72,000 125,000 62,000 49,000 30,961
Railroads 1,350,120 1,714,822 1,283,417 1,105,972 1,011,944 1,043,300 981,637 973,099 929,848 1,258,555 2,557,608 3,714,900 3,738,908 3,307,465 2,398,303
Air 3,042,991 3,766,124 4,497,685 4,148,009 3,785,153 3,130,697 1,835,655 1,385,819 2,633,512 3,010,052 3,383,715 3,731,199 3,330,169 3,399,458 2,891,124
Water 409,958 377,691 588,809 405,810 328,985 393,531 513,348 317,542 330,610 568,873 455,700 519,010 605,161 492,664 355,118
Pipeline 305,674 305,674 263,944 315,000 263,000 242,000 250,000 263,000 245,000 325,000 388,000 318,000 449,000 306,000 193,349
General Support 1,485,232 1,463,147 1,452,104 1,755,000 1,688,000 2,128,000 1,630,000 1,957,000 2,028,000 3,155,000 3,692,000 4,138,000 1,661,000 2,640,000 1,668,111

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

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.