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Transportation Receipts and Outlays in the Federal Budget - Fiscal Years 1977-94

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Transportation Receipts and Outlays in the Federal Budget

> Transportation Receipts and Outlays in the Federal Budget - Fiscal Years 1977-94

BTS97-E-01
April 1997

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Executive Summary  
Introduction  
Section One - Principal Data Sources and Description  
Data sources  
Adjustment for inflation  
Scope of data  
Limitations of coverage  
General information about federal receipts and outlays  
Federal receipts  
Federal outlays  
List of Figures  
Figure 1-1 - Sources and earmarking of receipts for federal transportation programs, and their coverage in this report  
List of Tables  
Table 1-1 - Index of Government Purchases of Goods and Services (GPGS): FY 1977-94  
Table 1-2 - FY 1994 Transportation modes, agencies, and funding sources  
Table 1-3 - End-of-fiscal-year cash balances of transportation-related federal trust funds: FY 1977-94  
Section Two - Trends in Federal Transportation Financial Activity  
Overall Trends in Transportation Receipts and Outlays  
Transportation compared with total federal activity  
Summary of transportation finance, 1977-74  
Transportation outlays by broad functional category  
User coverage of the transportation system as a whole  
Trends in overall receipts  
Trends in overall outlays  
Outlays at the project level  
Outlays-cross-modal comparisons  
Transportation Receipts and Outlays by Mode  
User coverage at the modal level  
Highway Receipts and Outlays  
Receipts  
Outlays  
Relationship to vehicle-miles traveled (VMT)  
Relationship to GDP  
Air Receipts and Outlays  
Receipts  
Outlays  
Water/Marine Receipts and Outlays  
Receipts  
Outlays  
Transit Receipts and Outlays  
Receipts  
Outlays  
Railroad Receipts and Outlays  
Receipts  
Outlays  
Pipeline Safety Receipts and Outlays  
Receipts  
Outlays  
General Support Receipts and Outlays  
List of Figures  
Figure 2-1 - Federal transportation receipts and outlays: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-2 - User coverage of federal transportation expenditures: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-3 - Federal transportation outlays by mode: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-4 - Distribution of federal transportation outlays by agency: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-5 - Highway Trust Fund receipts and outlays: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-6 - Comparison of gasoline tax receipts and automobile vehicle-miles traveled: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-7 - Comparison of HTF receipts to Gross Domestic Product: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-8 - Comparison of AATF receipts and aircraft revenue-miles: FY 1977-94  
Figure 2-9 - Shares of federal outlays for air programs: FY 1994 and 1977-94  
Figure 2-10 - Shares of federal outlays for transit programs: FY 1994 and 1977-94  
Figure 2-11 - Shares of federal outlays for intercity rail programs: FY 1994 and 1977-94  
List of Tables  
Table 2-1 - Transportation outlays compared to total federal outlays: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-2 - Summary of federal transportation receipts and outlays and user coverage ratios: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-3 - Federal transportation outlays by mode and broad functional categories: FY 1994  
Table 2-4 - Outlays by mode: FY 1994 and 1977-94  
Table 2-5 - Compound annual growth rates of receipts and outlays: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-6 - Distribution of total receipts by mode: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-7 - Distribution of total outlays by mode: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-8 - Distribution of federal transportation receipts by source: FY 1994 and 1977-94  
Table 2-9 - Federal transportation receipts by fund: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-10 - User coverage of modal transportation outlays: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-11 - Gasoline excise tax, amount, and applications by purpose: FY 1977-95  
Table 2-12 - Federal agency outlays for highway programs: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-13 - AATF receipts by revenue source: FY 1977-94  
Table 2-14 - Distribution of airport improvement program outlays: FY 1982-91  
Table 2-15 - Water/Marine Fund receipts: FY 1994  
Table 2-16 - Water/marine outlays by agency: FY 1994  
Table 2-17 - Federal outlays for pipeline safety: FY 1994  
Table 2-18 - Federal outlays for general support: FY 1994  
Appendix A - Glossary  
Appendix B - U.S. Coast Guard Data Adjustments  
List of Table  
Table B-1 - Scope of U.S. Coast Guard programs included in the water/marine mode: OMB vs. this report  
Table B-2 - U.S. Coast Guard transportation-related activity obligations as a percent of total obligations: FY 1984-94  
Appendix C - Detailed Tables  
C-1 - Federal transportation-related budget receipts by type of fund: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-2 - Federal transportation-related budget receipts by type of fund and source of receipts: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-3 - Federal transportation outlays by mode: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-4 - Federal transportation outlays by agency: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-5 - Federal outlays for highway transportation by agency and program: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-6 - Federal outlays for air transportation by agency and program: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-7 - Federal outlays for water transportation by agency and program: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-8 - Federal outlays for transit by agency and program: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-9 - Federal outlays for intercity rail transportation by agency and program: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-10 - Federal outlays for pipeline by agency and program: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars  
C-11 - Federal outlays for transportation general support by agency and program: FY 1977-94  
Part A - Current dollars  
Part B - Constant 1987 dollars