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6-3 Transportation-Related Final Demand

Thursday, January 5, 2017

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billions of chained 2009 dollars

Category 2005 2015
Personal consumption of transportation 1,008 1,021
Motor vehicles and parts 400 419
Motor vehicle fuels, lubricants, and fluids 273 267
Transportation services 335 335
Gross private domestic investment 206 314
Transportation structures 8 12
Transportation equipment 198 302
Government transportation-related purchases 297 U
Federal purchases 33 U
State and local purchases 246 U
Defense-related purchases 18 U
Exports ( + ) 226 321
Imports ( - ) 359 467
Total transportation-related final demand 1,374 1,196
U.S. GDP 14,234 16,397

Key: U = unavailable.

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 2016.