Federal Gas Tax: Household Expenditures from 1965 to 1995

August, 1997 - BTS/97-TS/2

The U.S. Congress passed the first federal tax on gasoline in 1932. States had been collecting taxes on gasoline since 1919, but Congress did not implement a federal gasoline tax until it identified a...

Figure 2Federal Motor Fuel Tax per Household

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, August 1997.

Transportation Statistics NewsletterIssue 2 - Federal Gas Tax: Household Expenditures from 1965 to 1995

August 1997 BTS/97-TS/2

Figure 1 Study Location

Truck Shipments Across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge: Value and Tonnage in 1993

April, 1998 - BTS/98-TS/3

The Woodrow Wilson Bridge, where Interstate 95 crosses the Potomac River just south of Washington, DC (figure 1), carries significant amounts of freight to support economic...

Transportation Statistics NewsletterIssue 3 - Truck Shipments Across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge: Value and Tonnage in 1993

April 1998 BTS/98-TS/3

Transportation Statistics Newsletter

Figure 1 Value-Added by Selected Industry Sectors:1992

($billions)

Truck shipments for Alaska and Hawaii are each about half the size of South Dakotas.

NOTE: The size of each circle represents shipments by truck from manufacturing,...

Economic Importance of Transportation Services: Highlights of the Transportation Satellite Accounts

A new study by the federal government has established that transportation services contribute a greater share of the value generated by the U.S. economy than previously measured. The study also...

Figure 2 Transportation Services Costs Embodied in a Dollar of Goods and Services Purchased by Consumers and Other End-Users: 1992

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, May 5, 1997.