Table 5 For-Hire and In-House Transportation Industries Included in the 1997 TSAs

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Table 4 Top Four Users of Transportation Services: 1992 and 1997

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Table 3 Contribution of Transportation Services to Gross Domestic Product (GDP): 1992 and 1997

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Table 2 Top Three Users of Transportation Services: 1997

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Table 1 Contribution of Transportation Services to Gross Domestic Product (GDP): 1997

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Summary

The Transportation Satellite Accounts (TSAs) provide a means for measuring the contribution of transportation services to the national economy. Prior to the TSAs, the magnitude of transportation services had long been underestimated, as most national...

The Role of Transportation in the Economy

As mentioned, the TSAs can be used for conducting studies related to the role of transportation in the economy. The following discusses findings from the 1997 TSAs as applied to analyses examining the...

Methodology

The TSAs measure the magnitude of in-house transportation services by estimating the inputs used by each industry for its in-house transportation activities. To do this, the TSAs rearrange the I-O accounts using data on transportation from other...

Introduction

To provide a more comprehensive measure of transportation services and their contribution to the national economy, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau...

Future Work

By providing detailed industry use of transportation services and measuring in-house transportation, the TSAs provide a more comprehensive picture of the role of transportation in the U.S. economy. This report provides an update as to this role. Future updates can improve...