Transportation plays a vital role in the American economy: it makes economic activity possible, and serves as a major economic activity in its own right.

This report is BTS’s first stand-alone volume on transportation and the economy, and uses a variety of data series to highlight relevant trends and explain related measurement concepts.

• Acknowledgements
• Quality Assurance Statement
• About This Report
• Chapter 1: Summary Indicators
• Chapter 2: Transportation’s Contribution to the Economy
• Chapter 3: How Much Does Transportation Cost?
• Chapter 4: Transportation Employment
• Chapter 5: Transportation Productivity
• Chapter 6: Household Spending on Transportation
• Chapter 7: Government Revenues and Expenditures
• Chapter 8: Value of Transportation Infrastructure
• List of figures and tables