Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Table 3-26a. Federal Transportation-Related Revenues, Fiscal Year (Current $ millions)

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  1980 1985 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998
Airport/airway trust funda 2,274 3,598 4,945 6,206 5,918 6,096 6,027 6,291 3,128 4,488 8,654
Highway trust fund                      
Highway accountb 7,647 12,908 13,453 15,303 16,572 16,864 17,005 R20,967 R22,692 21,491 24,364
Mass transit account X 1,420 1,977 3,149 1,816 2,735 2,691 2,813 3,282 3,819 4,269
Water receiptsc 381 463 1,147 1,325 1,474 1,591 1,394 R1,711 R1,608 1,593 1,487
Pipeline safety fund X X 10 11 14 15 19 35 31 30 29
Emergency preparedness fund X X X X 3 10 7 7 7 7 8
Total 10,302 18,388 21,532 25,995 25,797 27,310 27,143 R31,824 R30,748 31,428 40,298

a The tax requirement that allows for the 10% passenger ticket tax and certain other taxes paid by airport and airway users to be transferred to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund expired on Dec. 31, 1995; it was reenacted in August 1996; but expired again in December 1996.
b Beginning in 1983, a portion of the fuel tax credited to the Highway Trust Fund is earmarked for transit.
c Water receipts include the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, St. Lawrence Seaway tolls, the Inland Waterway Trust Fund, Panama Canal receipts, and the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. 1998 Panama Canal receipts are estimates.

KEY: R = revised; X = no activity or a value of zero.

NOTE: Numbers my not add to totals due to rounding.

SOURCES:
1980: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Receipts and Outlays in the Federal Budget,
Fiscal Years 1977-94 (Washington, DC: April 1997), table C-1.
1985-95: Ibid., Government Transportation Financial Statistics: Fiscal Years 1985-95, Internet site www.bts.gov, table A-2.
1996-98: U.S. Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, Budget of the United States Government, Appendix (Washington, DC: Annual issues).



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