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BTS Technical Report: Transportation Services Index and the Economy

BTS Technical Report:
Transportation Services Index and the Economy

December 2007
TR-002


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Figures
Figure 1 - The Transportation Services Index, January 1990 to June 2007
Figure 2 - Truck Tonnage Index, January 1979 to September 2005
Figure 3 - Air Ton-Miles, January 1979 to September 2005
Figure 4 - Quarterly Rail Ton-Miles, 1st Qtr 1979 to 4th Qtr 2001
Figure 5 - Rail Carloads and Intermodal Units, January 1979 to September 2005
Figure 6 - Waterborne Tonnage, January 1979 to August 2005
Figure 7 - Natural Gas Consumption, Alaska Petroleum Productions, and PADD to PADD movement, January 1980 to March 2006
Figure 8 - Air Revenue Passenger-Miles (RPMs), January 1979 to September 2005
Figure 9 - Rail Passenger-Miles (PMs) January 1979 to July 2005
Figure 10 - Transit Unlinked Trips January 1979 to June 2005
Figure 11 - Value-Added for TSI Components, 2002
Figure 12 - Three TSI's: Total, Freight, and Passenger, January 1979 to May 2006
Figure 13 - Freight TSI and 12-Month Moving Average, January 1979 to May 2006
Figure 14 - Passenger TSI and 12-Month Moving Average, January 1979 to May 2006
Figure 15 - TSI Matched Against the Recessions, January 1979 to August 2005
Figure 16 - H-P filtered TSI, January 1979 to July 2005
Figure 17 - Smoothed TSI Freight and Passenger Against the Growth Cycles, January 1979 to August 2005
Tables
Table 1 - Data Sources for the Transportation Services Index (TSI)
Table 2 - Dates of Business and Growth Cycles
Table 3 - Dates of Turning Points of TSI Freight and Passenger Against the Recessions
Table 4 - HP-filtered TSI Turning Points Against the CCI Growth Cycles
Table A-1 - Time Series Characteristics of TSI Data Components