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Multimodal Transportation Indicators - December 2014

References

Air Transport Association. Airline Industry Taxes and Fees, Airlines for America, Washington, DC. Obtained from: http://www.airlines.org/Pages/Econ_Aviation_Economy.aspx, as of May 2014.

Office of Management and Budget. (2012). Budget of the United States Government: Browse,...

Appendix B. Data Sources

This appendix presents data sources by mode and level of government. Tables B-1 and B-2 list data sources for transportation revenue and expenditure, respectively, by mode and by level of government.

Appendix A. Detailed Description of Transportation Revenues and Expenditures

This appendix provides a detailed discussion of transportation revenues and expenditures.

As defined in section 2, transportation revenue includes three categories: own-source revenue, revenue directed to other uses, and supporting revenue. The...

5. Glossary

Capital expenditure: Capital expenditure includes outlays for adding new equipment and structures and for improving or enhancing the capacity and quality of the existing equipment and structures if the improvements last for more than 1 year. Capital expenditure enhances the capacity and...

4. Data Related Issues

GTFS includes revenue and expenditure statistics expressed in current and constant dollars. The statistics in current dollars are converted to the 2009 constant dollars by using the chained-dollar price index. Chained-dollar (or constant dollar)...

3. Presentation of Key Revenue and Expenditure Statistics

This section presents graphs that illustrate key statistics related to transportation finance. Figure 3 shows transportation revenue by revenue source, including own-source revenue, revenue diverted to other uses, and supporting revenue.

Total transportation revenue, which includes...

2. Definition of Transportation Revenue and Expenditure

Within this report, the government refers to Federal, State, and local governments and also includes government enterprises that are government agencies such as the Panama Canal Commission and mass transit agencies. Government enterprises covered in this report...

1. Introduction

The government plays an important role in the U.S. transportation system, both as a provider of transportation infrastructure and an administrator and regulator of the system. The government spends a large amount of funds on building, rehabilitating, maintaining, operating, and administering...