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Table 3-26: Summary of Transportation Revenues and Expenditures from Own Funds and User Coverage, Fiscal Year

(Current and chained 2000 $ millions)

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  1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 (R) 1995 (R) 1996 (R) 1997 (R) 1998 (R) 1999 (R) 2000 (R) 2001 (R) 2002 2003
Federal revenues                                
Current 10,312 18,404 21,384 25,976 25,867 27,373 27,206 30,478 31,186 31,958 39,441 52,566 47,146 43,140 45,684 46,203
Chained 19,952 27,996 28,414 32,839 32,169 32,693 31,497 35,667 35,339 35,145 42,527 54,938 47,146 41,940 43,172 42,631
Federal expenditures                                
Current (R) 24,661 28,300 30,924 33,015 35,331 37,337 39,733 44,662 44,736 45,859 46,192 48,783 56,297 68,883 78,256 84,919
Chained (R) 47,715 43,048 41,090 41,738 43,938 44,593 46,000 52,266 50,693 50,433 49,807 50,985 56,297 66,967 73,954 78,354
Federal user coverage (percent) 42% 65% 69% 79% 73% 73% 68% 68% 70% 70% 85% 108% 84% 63% 58% 54%
State and local revenues                                
Current 22,665 33,735 48,369 51,417 54,458 57,823 60,427 67,095 69,491 69,691 73,762 78,007 81,451 82,977 89,290 88,133
Chained 46,389 52,110 62,527 64,528 66,985 69,421 70,697 78,518 78,746 76,643 79,535 81,527 81,451 80,669 84,381 81,319
State and local expenditures                                
Current 31,556 48,914 69,760 75,323 79,309 79,180 86,213 103,663 108,735 115,095 120,890 137,298 139,101 151,537 155,714 161,675
Chained 64,587 75,555 90,180 94,531 97,551 95,061 100,866 121,311 123,215 126,575 130,351 143,494 139,101 147,322 147,154 149,175
State and local user coverage (percent) 72% 69% 69% 68% 69% 73% 70% 65% 64% 61% 61% 57% 59% 55% 57% 55%

KEY: R = revised; U = data are not available.

NOTE

Beginning in 1995 a new methodology is used, numbers from years prior to 1995 are not comparable, see the Government Transportation Financial Statistics report for details.

All numbers were converted to chained dollars using the Government consumption expenditures and gross investment price index.

The significant increase in federal revenues in 1998 is because of the increase in federal highway motor fuel taxes, and the transfer of 4.3 cents per gallon highway motor fuel tax from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Highway Trust Fund. The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 allowed taxpayers to delay depositing highway motor fuel tax receipts of August and September 1998 until October 1998, and this resulted a greater growth of federal revenue in 1999.

SOURCES

1980: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, unpublished data.

1985-1994: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Government Transportation Financial Statistics: 2003 (Washington, DC: forthcoming), tables 2-a, 2-b, 4-a, and 4-b.

1995-2003 U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Government Transportation Financial Statistics: 2007

Constant dollar deflator: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts, Washington, DC, table 3.9.4.