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Table 3-7: Passenger and Freight Transportation Expenditures

(Current $ millions)

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
TOTAL passenger and freight transportation expenditures^R	107,461	146,523	195,871	299,221	569,879	780,232	992,946	946,924	1,001,871	1,061,244	1,138,127	1,201,545	1,266,959	1,341,638	1,396,238	1,498,672
Passenger transportation
Highway
Auto purchases and ownership^{a, R}	51,610	71,064	94,978	152,238	297,128	426,796	507,308	481,929	514,970	551,558	601,206	631,653	672,416	706,064	722,484	787,407
Local
Bus and transit^b	1,337	1,454	1,841	4,697	9,297	13,548	^R16,721	17,356	^R18,012	^R18,794	^R20,082	^R21,647	^R21,318	^R21,932	^R21,445	21,702
Taxi	^R1,107	1,113	1,740	2,900	2,755	3,770	4,030	4,030	4,030	4,340	4,650	4,960	5,425	5,735	^R6,355	6,200
School bus	486	707	1,219	^R2,174	3,833	5,722	8,031	7,879	8,060	7,618	7,847	9,889	^R9,082	10,353	10,326	10,340
Intercity, bus	559	629	799	1,016	1,709	1,989	1,750	1,875	1,899	1,667	1,410	1,481	^R1,497	^R1,642	^R1,757	1,819
Total highway^R	55,099	74,967	100,577	163,025	314,722	451,825	537,840	513,069	546,971	583,977	635,195	669,630	709,738	745,726	762,367	827,468
Air total^c	3,555	5,682	10,565	18,851	38,135	50,319	^R73,045	^R72,841	^R73,780	^R74,123	^R76,146	^R81,155	^R82,331	^R93,268	^R97,358	101,750
Rail total^d	759	598	464	1,212	2,976	3,875	4,521	4,414	4,571	5,278	^R4,882	6,693	^R5,895	^R5,763	^R5,691	5,611
Water total (includes international)	281	345	287	294	^R310	^R601	^R1,391	^R1,391	^R1,469	^R1,505	^R1,564	^R1,716	^R1,843	^R1,974	^R2,029	2,088
Total passenger transportation expenditures^R	59,694	81,592	111,893	183,382	356,143	506,620	641,996	591,715	626,791	664,883	717,787	759,193	799,807	846,732	867,445	936,917
Freight transportation expenditures
Highway
Local, truck	14,289	23,779	28,819	37,287	60,545	82,200	108,350	109,650	116,000	122,050	125,712	128,352	132,973	138,727	144,276	152,067
Intercity
Bus	42	70	122	156	235	245	126	131	130	128	128	130	132	134	141	151
Truck	17,958	23,628	33,553	47,400	94,551	123,200	162,300	164,600	176,800	189,700	204,876	219,627	235,440	257,807	282,814	304,563
Total highway	32,289	47,477	62,494	84,843	155,331	205,645	270,776	274,381	292,930	311,878	330,716	348,109	368,545	396,668	427,231	456,781
Air total (domestic and international)	354	708	1,171	1,838	4,013	6,817	13,706	14,353	14,950	15,805	^R17,249	^R18,755	^R20,448	^R22,831	^R24,222	25,277
Rail total	9,028	9,923	11,869	16,509	27,858	29,150	30,067	30,003	30,473	30,775	33,121	^R34,360	35,059	35,349	35,294	35,893
Water total	3,487	3,903	5,257	8,221	15,498	18,448	20,121	20,306	19,895	^R20,768	^R21,150	^R22,709	24,564	^R21,031	^R22,503	24,494
Oil pipeline total	895	1,051	1,396	2,220	7,548	8,910	^R8,506	^R8,095	^R8,548	^R8,470	^R8,676	^R9,077	^R8,637	^R8,632	8,579	9,067
Other total^e	1,714	1,869	1,791	2,208	3,488	4,642	7,774	8,071	^R8,284	^R8,639	^R9,408	^R10,307	^R9,950	^R10,554	^R10,601	10,243
Total freight transportation expenditures^R	47,767	64,931	83,978	115,839	213,736	273,612	350,950	355,209	375,080	396,361	420,340	442,352	467,152	494,906	528,793	561,755

KEY: R = revised.

^a Includes business expenditures for passenger cars.

^b Includes federal/state operating subsidies, and federal capital grants. Beginning in 1994, includes taxes levied directly by transit agencies and local subsidies such as bridge and tunnel tolls, and nontransit parking lot funds.

^c Air includes aircraft and operating costs, plus domestic and international air passenger federal excise taxes.

^d Data from 1980 include federal/state/local operating subsidies and capital grants.

Figures also include federal operating subsidies and capital grants for Amtrak and the Northeast Corridor.

^e Domestic freight forwarder's revenues after payment to live-haul carriers plus other shipper costs such as loading and unloading freight cars.

SOURCE:

Passenger and freight:

1960-99: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 2001 (Washington, DC: 2000), pp. 4-11.