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Federal Transportation Financial Report Released by DOT
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DOT 86-97
BTS Product Line
202-366-DATA
Michael Rossetti
Technical
617-494-2020
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Wednesday, June 18, 1997 -- U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater today released a new report,
Transportation Receipts and Outlays in the Federal Budget: Fiscal Years 1977-94,
from the Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
"This report provides a valuable picture of how the federal government collects and invests
America's transportation dollars," said Slater. "It identifies trends that have emerged over the
past 18 years, and tracks shifts in the five major transportation trust funds that have occurred
over time."
Compiled from the Budget of the United States, highlights from the report include:
- Receipts totaled more than $25 billion in 1994. These receipts are collected through special
taxes, user fees and trust funds. Users covered about two-thirds of the cost of federal
transportation programs; the remaining third came from general funds or trust fund balances
from previous years.
- Transportation outlays constituted only 2.67 percent of total federal outlays in 1994:
$39 billion versus $1.5 trillion. This proportion ranged from a high of 4.08 percent in 1977
to a low of 2.43 percent in 1990.
- Highway and aviation taxes accounted for nearly 90 percent of all federal transportation
receipts collected from 1977 to 1994; highway and aviation accounted for 70 percent of all
federal transportation outlays during the same period.
BTS Director Dr. T. R. Lakshmanan said, "This publication is an excellent overview of
national transportation finances. We look forward to releasing detailed data on state and local
transportation finances in the very near future."
The report is available in both printed and electronic forms. To order printed copies, call
(202) 366-DATA, fax (202) 366-3640, e-mail orders@bts.gov, or write to the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation, Room 3430, 400 Seventh St., S.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20590. An electronic version of the report is available on the Bureau's
Internet site at http://www.bts.gov.
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