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5-3 Transportation-Related Final Demand

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

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billions of chained 2009 dollars

Category 2002 2012
Personal consumption of transportation 971 909
Motor vehicles and parts 383 358
Motor vehicle fuels, lubricants, and fluids 267 251
Transportation services 321 300
Gross private domestic investment 175 228
Transportation structures 8 10
Transportation equipment 167 218
Government transportation-related purchases 305 280
Federal purchases 31 39
State and local purchases 261 223
Defense-related purchases 13 18
Exports ( + ) 207 296
Imports ( - ) 318 390
Total transportation-related final demand 1,341 1,323
U.S. GDP 12,909 15,369

Note: Data may not add to totals due to rounding. Transportation-related final demand measures the size of transportation functions in relation to the GDP. It includes the transportation portion of the four components of the GDP: personal consumption, gross private domestic investment, government purchases, and net exports of goods and services.

Source: As cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 3-4, available at www.bts.gov as of October 2014.