Figure 5-4 Freight TSI and the Economic Growth Cycle, 1979 to 2015

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Services Index, available at www.bts.gov as of May 2016.

Box 5-B Transportation Services Index (TSI)

The Transportation Services Index (TSI), produced by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), measures the movement of freight and passengers. BTS produces three indexes – a freight index, a passenger index, and a total or combined index. The...

Figure 5-3 Transportation Required Per Dollar of Output by Sector, 2014

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NOTE: In-house transportation consists of transportation services (air, rail, truck, and water) provided by nontransportation industries for their own use. For-hire transportation consists of the services provided by transportation firms to...

Figure 5-2 Use of Transportation by Industry, 2014 (current dollars, billions)

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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Satellite Accounts, available at http://www.bts.gov as of March 2016.

Figure 5-1 Contribution of For-Hire and In-House Transportation to U.S. Gross Domestic Product (2014 dollars)

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NOTES: (a) In-house transportation consists of the services provided by non-transportation industries, including households, for their use. Business in-house transportation includes privately owned and operated vehicles of all body types,...

Box 5-A Transportation Satellite Accounts (TSAs)

Satellite industry accounts expand on and supplement the national income and product accounts and input-output (I-0) accounts by focusing on a particular aspect of economic activity. The Transportation Satellite Accounts (TSAs) capture the full role of transportation in the economy by...

Table 5-1 U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Attributed to Transportation-Related Final Demand: 2000, 2007-2014 (Billions of Chained 2009 dollars)

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Box 4-B Firearms Discovered at TSA Checkpoints, 2015

Box 4-A Impacts of January 22–23, 2016 Blizzard on Eastern U.S. Interstate System

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Weather Service, April 2016.

Figure 4-6 Total Number of Hours of Lock Closures: 2000-2015

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SOURCE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Navigation Data Center, Lock Performance Monitoring System. Locks by Waterway, Locks Unavailability, Calendar Years 1993-2015 (May 22, 2015). Available at http://www.navigationdatacenter.us/ as of May...