Personal Spending on Transportation

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Personal Spending on Transportation

Personal spending on transportation measures consumption of transportation by households. It is also a component of gross domestic product. The historic series is a signal of long-term structural changes....

Transportation Services Index

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Monthly data, seasonally adjusted

The Transportation Services Index (TSI) is a measure of the month-to-month changes in the output of services provided by the for-hire transportation industry. The index can be examined together with other economic indicators to...

Economy

Rail Fatalities

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Monthly data, not seasonally adjusted

Improving safety is the top priority of the United States Department of Transportation. The number of railroad deaths (excluding public highway crossings) continues a downward trend. For the five-year period of 2003-2007...

Air Fatalities

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Monthly data, not seasonally adjusted

Improved safety is the foremost goal of the United States Department of Transportation. The Federal Aviation Administration regulates safety, and the National Transportation Safety Board (independent of the U.S. DOT) leads...

Highway Fatalities

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Quarterly data

Improved safety is the foremost goal of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and highway fatalities accounted for 94% of all transportation fatalities in 2011. (BTS, National Transportation Statistics) Motor vehicle fatalities were the leading...

Safety

Multimodal Transportation Indicators - August 2014

Chapter 4: Economic Characteristics of Passenger Travel and Tourism

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Transportation is both a component of U.S. economic output and a contributor to the economy. The Nation’s economic output for 2011, measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), includes nearly $1.5 trillion in the transportation sector (table 4-1). The largest portion of GDP...

Table 4-1: U.S. GDP by Spending Category, Various Years

(current dollars, in billions)