PRODUCER PRICES OF FOR-HIRE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
PRODUCER PRICES OF FOR-HIRE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES
Producer Price Index: Transportation Services by Mode (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Producer Price Index: Transportation Services by Mode (monthly data, not seasonally adjusted)
Producer prices reflect prices charged to anyone, including consumers when the firm also serves as a retailer. Actual prices to users of transportation services will differ due to substitution between domestic and foreign markets, and substitution between user- and market-provided services.
| Price Index (Jun-1993=100) | May-00 | May-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Air transportation | 139.70 | 149.67 |
| Air transportation percent change from same month previous year | 12.30 | 7.13 |
| Water transportation | 124.20 | 125.98 |
| Water transportation percent change from same month previous year | 8.24 | 1.43 |
| Motor freight transportation and warehousing | 118.60 | 123.00 |
| Motor freight transportation and warehousing percent change from same month previous year | 3.76 | 3.71 |
| Railroad transportation | 105.70 | 112.95 |
| Railroad transportation percent change from same month previous year | 3.55 | 6.86 |
| Pipelines, excluding natural gas | 103.00 | 104.42 |
| Pipelines, excluding natural gas percent change from same month previous year | 0.82 | 1.38 |
NOTE: The current value is compared to the value from the same period in the previous year to account for seasonality.
Data from February 2001 to May 2001 are preliminary. The original data for the indices in this table have different base periods. For comparability, the indices have been adjusted to have a common base period (1993).
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, available at: http://www.census.gov/pub/const/C30/c30curtb.html.