Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Table 3
Allocation of Commercial Freight Industries' Gross Output to Transportation Margins, Own Uses,1 and Commercial Transportation at Factor Prices: 1976-1996

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  1976 1986 1996
TMs Own use Factor price2 TMs Own use Factor price TMs Own use Factor price
Water 88.4% 24.1% –12.5% 55.6% 20.6% 23.8% 30.8% 7.9% 61.3%
Services incidental to water transportation 61.3% 35.9% 2.8% 48.0% 14.6% 37.4% 17.5% 2.1% 80.4%
Railway 81.3% 2.1% 16.7% 78.2% 1.1% 20.8% 81.9% 0.8% 17.4%
Truck 70.2% 8.6% 21.2% 66.0% 2.3% 31.7% 62.6% 3.8% 33.6%

1 Own use refers to own commodities used by the commodity-producing industry as inputs, for example, trucking commodities used by the trucking industry.

2 The negative value reflects a negative entry in commodity final demand generated by the imbalance of imports over exports and little direct consumer demand.