Table 10 - Growth of Investment in Rolling Stock by Sector Compared with Growth in GDP, 1977-2000

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Transportation Investment and GDP, Some Concepts, Data, and Analysis - 2004

Executive Summary

Transportation investment consists of purchases of transportation fixed assets with a service life of more than one year and changes in inventories. Transportation fixed assets include transportation infrastructure, rolling stocks, and other equipment that are used...

Figure 5 - Investment in transportation infrastructure as percentage of GDP by mode and by sector, average for 1987-2003

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Table 2 - Federal Infrastructure Investment Programs by Agency and Mode

Figure 11 - Investment in rolling stock as percent of GDP by mode: 1987-2003

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6. Trends in Transportation Investment

In this section, we discuss trends in transportation investment in the following sequence: overall transportation investment, transportation investment by sector, transportation investment by asset type (i.e., infrastructure and rolling stock) and...

Figure 1 - Transportation investment as percentage of GDP by type of asset: 1987-2003

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References

1. Apogee Research, Inc. and Greenhorne & OMara, Research on Relationship between Economic Development and Transport Investment, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., NCHPR Report 418, 1998.

2. Bell, Michael E. and Therese J. McGuire...

Figure 13 - Business transportation investment by transportation and non-transportation industries, average for 1987-2003

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Sources: BTS calculations based on data from the following sources: U.S. Department of...