September 27, 1999 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Airfare dominates public transportation expenditures
In all four regions
of the country, airfare accounted for half or more of consumer
expenditures on public transportation in 1997. The West had the highest
share allocated to air transportation--71 percent.
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Households in the South and Midwest also spent well over half of their
public transportation budgets on airfare. In contrast, consumers in the
Northeast allocated just 50 percent of their public transportation
expenditures to air travel. Households in the Northeast devoted more of
their public transportation budgets to mass transit than did households in
the other regions, at 29 percent. In the rest of the country, the
proportion going to mass transit was only 8 percent.
Midwesterners allocated more of their public transportation
expenditures to ship travel than did consumers in the other three regions.
Ten percent of these expenditures went to ship travel, compared to 7
percent in the West, 6 percent in the Northeast and 5 percent in the
South.
These data are a product of the BLS Consumer
Expenditure Survey program.
Additional information is available from "Issues in Labor Statistics:
Expenditures on Public Transportation" (PDF
16K).
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