The Bureau of Transportation Statistics compiles trends and other statistics in its online publication—National Transportation Statistics [USDOT BTS 2014].

Among the trends:

• Lane-miles increased 0.4 percent between 2011 and 2012. Highway person-miles traveled and vehicle-miles traveled increased by 1.0 and 0.6 percent, respectively, from 2011 to 2012.
• The Nation’s transportation assets were valued at approximately $7.7 trillion in 2012, an increase of 4.1 percent over 2011 estimates. Publicly owned infrastructure and equipment accounted for the majority of transportation capital stock.
• In 2012 the value of transportation construction increased 4.0 percent over 2011 levels, reaching $119 billion, of which 67.8 percent was spent on street and highway construction.
• The volume of freight transportation services grew 23.3 percent between April 2009 and December 2013, while the volume of passenger transportation services increased 9.3 percent between March 2009 and December 2013.

FIGURE 1 Freight and Passenger Transportation Services Index: January 1990 - December 2013

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SOURCE: TSI: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Services Index (Updated monthly), available at www.bts.gov as of April 2014. Recession Dates: National Bureau of Economic Research, U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions, available at www.nber.org/cycles.html as of January 2014.