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Global Connectivity
Transportation-related variables that influence the
domestic economy and global competitiveness (chapter 2, section D)
- The United
States
traded $401.2 billion worth (in
current dollars) of transportation-related goods (e.g., cars, trains, boats,
and airplanes and their related parts) in 2006 with its partners. As is the
case with its overall international trade, the
United
States had a merchandise trade deficit in
transportation-related goods (with an excess of imports over exports) totaling
$71.4 billion in 2006. [D-1]
- U.S.
trade in transportation services in 2006 totaled $163.2 billion (in current
dollars). The
United States
had a surplus in transportation services from 1995 through 1997. The trade surplus in 1995 was $3.3 billion. By
2006, however, 57 percent of trade was imports (payments to foreign countries),
resulting in trade deficit of $22.6 billion. [D-3]
- Truck
remains the dominant mode for transporting U.S.-North American freight followed
by rail, pipeline, maritime, air, and other unknown modes. Between 1996 and 2006, trucks accounted for
most of the growth in the value of U.S.-North American freight. [D-4]
- In 2006,
the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach,
CA, handled 38 percent of U.S.
maritime container volume. This represents
a 9.4 percent average annual growth rate since 2001. Savannah, GA,
has grown the most between 2001 and 2006 (with an annual average growth rate of
14.2 percent). [D-5]
- In 2006,
the United States
ranked second in the world in terms of maritime container volume and first in
terms of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). In 2006,
U.S. share of world volumes and GDP were 11.1 and 27.3 percent,
respectively. [D-7]
- International vehicle and passenger traffic (chapter 2,
section D)
- In 2006,
over 242 million people (both U.S.
residents and residents of other countries) crossed into the
United
States
from
Canada
and
Mexico
in personal vehicles,
compared to nearly 266 million in 1995 and almost 331 million in 1999, the high
point. The
number of pedestrians crossing into the country in 2006 was 46.8 million,
compared to 33.5 million in 1995, and down from a high of 52.3 million in 2001.
[D-12, D-15]
- In 2006,
11.4 million trucks crossed into the United States
from
Mexico
and
Canada
,
and 1.8 million full rail containers crossed into the
United
States . [D-8, D-11]
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