Box 7-5 National Highway Cost Construction Index

The National Highway Construction Cost Index (NHCCI), published quarterly since March 2003, uses a database of successful bids on state highway projects, which includes quotes on the specific items that comprise the projects. The database includes the costs of the material involved, the cost...

Figure 7-14 Government Transportation Revenue and Expenditures, 1995 to 2012

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Figure 7-13 Federal and State Funding of Public Transit, 2012

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Figure 7-12 Transportation Expenditures and Revenues by State and Local Governments, 2012 (billions of dollars)

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Figure 7-11 Proportion of State and Local Government Expenditures Spent on Transportation, 2013

Figure 7-10 State and Local Expenditures by Mode, 1995 to 2012

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Box 7-4 State Transportation Finance

State transportation expenditure data come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s State and Local Government Finances, which conducts a full census of state and local governments every 5 years and a sample survey in the intervening years. Federal and state spending on transit was collected by a...

Figure 7-9 State and Local Expenditures by Mode, 2012 (billions)

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Figure 7-8 Federal Transportation Expenditures by Mode, 1995 to 2012

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Figure 7-7 Federal Transportation Expenditures by Mode, 2012 (billions)

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