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5-3 Transportation-Related Final Demand

Monday, December 28, 2015

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billions of chained 2009 dollars

Category 2003 2013
Personal consumption of transportation 985 937
Motor vehicles and parts 395 376
Motor vehicle fuels, lubricants, and fluids 267 254
Transportation services 323 308
Gross private domestic investment 163 242
Transportation structures 8 10
Transportation equipment 155 231
Government transportation-related purchases 316 276
Federal purchases 35 36
State and local purchases 261 226
Defense-related purchases 20 14
Exports ( + ) 197 312
Imports ( - ) 322 411
Total transportation-related final demand 1,351 1,374
U.S. GDP 13,271 15,710

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 2015.