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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Figure 12 - Business transportation and non-transportation investment: 1988-2003

(Growth in percent)

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Note: All growth rates are calculated based on chained 2000 dollar values.

Sources...

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

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1. Introduction

Transportation investment is defined as additions to transportation fixed assets. Transportation fixed assets refers to structures, motor vehicles, and other machinery and equipment, which are used in the provision of transportation services for more than one year. Due to data...

Figure 10 - Growth of investment in rolling stock by sector compared with growth in GDP, 1988-2003

(Annual growth in percent)

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Figure 6 - Investment in transportation infrastructure as percentage of GDP by mode: 1987-2003

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