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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	2000	2001
TOTAL passenger and freight transportation expenditures	107,461	146,523	195,871	299,221	569,879	780,232	967,746	946,924	1,001,871	1,061,218	1,138,107	^R1,190,009	1,267,010	1,341,796	1,395,875	1,498,672	1,566,965	1,589,782
PASSENGER transportation expenditures, total	59,694	81,592	111,893	183,382	356,143	506,620	616,796	591,715	626,791	664,883	717,787	^R747,412	799,807	846,731	867,445	936,917	991,190	1,010,172
Highway, total	55,099	74,967	100,577	163,025	314,722	451,825	537,840	513,069	546,971	583,977	635,195	^R657,410	709,738	745,726	762,367	827,468	859,697	886,697
Highway, auto purchases and ownership^a	51,610	71,064	94,978	152,238	297,128	426,796	507,308	481,929	514,970	551,558	601,206	^R619,433	672,416	706,064	722,484	787,407	809,429	835,560
Local, bus and transit^b	1,337	1,454	1,841	4,697	9,297	13,548	16,721	17,356	18,012	18,794	20,082	21,647	21,318	21,932	21,445	21,702	30,586	30,591
Local, taxi	1,107	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	6,355	6,200	5,580	5,735
Local, school bus	486	707	1,219	2,174	3,833	5,722	8,031	7,879	8,060	7,618	7,847	9,889	9,082	10,353	10,326	10,340	12,104	12,624
Intercity, bus	559	629	799	1,016	1,709	1,989	1,750	1,875	1,899	1,667	1,410	1,481	1,497	1,642	1,757	1,819	1,998	2,187
Air total^c	3,555	5,682	10,565	18,851	38,135	50,319	73,045	72,841	73,780	74,123	76,146	81,155	82,331	93,268	97,358	101,750	119,997	111,866
Rail total^d	759	598	464	1,212	2,976	3,875	4,521	4,414	4,571	5,278	4,882	6,693	5,895	5,763	5,691	5,611	6,834	7,421
Water total (includes international)	281	345	287	294	310	601	1,391	1,391	1,469	1,505	1,564	^R2,155	1,843	1,974	2,029	2,088	4,663	4,187
FREIGHT transportation expenditures, total	47,767	64,931	83,978	115,839	213,736	273,612	350,950	355,209	375,080	396,335	420,320	^R442,597	467,203	495,065	528,430	561,755	575,775	579,610
Highway, total	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	460,841	467,299
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	155,530	157,707
Intercity bus	42	70	122	156	235	245	126	131	130	128	128	130	132	134	141	151	146	148
Intercity 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	305,165	309,444
Air (domestic and international) total	354	708	1,171	1,838	4,013	6,817	13,706	14,353	14,950	15,805	17,249	18,755	20,448	22,831	24,222	25,277	27,648	25,810
Rail total	9,028	9,923	11,869	16,509	27,858	29,150	30,067	30,003	30,473	30,775	33,121	^R34,605	35,059	35,349	35,294	35,893	36,454	36,736
Water total	3,487	3,903	5,257	8,221	15,498	18,448	20,121	20,306	19,895	20,768	21,150	22,709	24,564	21,031	22,503	24,494	28,670	27,632
Oil pipeline total	895	1,051	1,396	2,220	7,548	8,910	8,506	8,095	8,548	8,470	8,676	9,077	8,637	8,632	8,579	9,067	8,958	9,066
Other total^e	1,714	1,869	1,791	2,208	3,488	4,642	7,774	8,071	8,284	8,639	9,408	^R9,342	9,950	10,554	10,601	10,243	13,204	13,068

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.

NOTES

Previously published data are revised only for the selected years included in the most recent source publication.

SOURCE

Passenger and freight:

1960-2001: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 2002 (Washington, DC: 2002), pp. 38-41, and similar tables in earlier editions.