4. Survey of Existing Statistical Work

This survey is focused on existing statistical works that are similar to this one. It covers only undertakings by other domestic and foreign government agencies that are comparable to either the Department of Transportation or the Bureau of...

Figure 7 - Investment in Transportation Infrastructure as Percentage of GDP by Mode, excluding Highway, 1977-2000

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Notes: Transit includes relatively small amounts of government investment in railroad infrastructure. Transportation...

Table 2 - Growth in Transportation Investment by Type of Asset Compared with Growth in GDP, 1977-2000

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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...