Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
Printable Version

Table 17-B
Transportation Expenditures After Transfer of Federal Grants as a Fraction of all Expenditures by Level of Government: FY 1985-1999

(Chained 1996 $ millions)

Excel | CSV

Mode 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
Total, all government expenditures                              
Total government expenditures 2,237 2,324 2,352 2,424 2,524 2,662 2,738 2,856 2,850 2,876 2,931 2,958 2,993 3,065 3,121
Transportation own source 107 113 116 114 116 117 123 127 126 133 133 133 135 140 145
Transportation percent of total 4.8 4.9 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.6
Federal expenditures                              
Total own source 1,325 1,356 1,346 1,385 1,443 1,529 1,539 1,575 1,539 1,546 1,548 1,561 1,569 1,599 1,602
Transportation excluding federal grants 14 14 14 13 14 14 14 16 16 17 16 16 15 16 15
Transportation percent of total 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.1 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9
State and Local expenditures                              
Total own source 913 968 1,006 1,039 1,081 1,133 1,200 1,281 1,311 1,330 1,382 1,398 1,424 1,467 1,519
Transportation including federal grants 93 99 102 101 102 104 108 112 110 115 117 118 120 124 130
Transportation percent of total 10.2 10.3 10.2 9.7 9.4 9.2 9.0 8.7 8.4 8.7 8.5 8.4 8.4 8.5 8.5

NOTE:
Numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCES: Federal: Executive Office of the President of the United States, Budget of the United States Government - Appendix (Washington, D.C.: Annual publication); ________. Budget of the United States Government FY 2002 - Public Budget Database (Washington, D.C.), Outlays available at: http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy2002/db.html, as of October 2001; U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics (Washington, D.C.: Annual publication), Table FA-5; National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Aeronautics and Space Report of the President (Washington, D.C.: Annual issues), available at: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/hqlibrary/books/nasadoc.html, as of October 2001, Appendix E-3; and personal communication with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
State and Local:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, State and Local Government Finance Estimates (Washington, D.C.), available at: ftp://ftp.census.gov/pub/outgoing/govs/, as of October 2001.
Chain-Type Price Index:
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts Tables (Washington D.C., 2001), Table 7.1 Quantity and Price Indexes for Gross Domestic Product, available at: http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/dn/nipaweb/, as of October 2001.