Transportation Economic Trends
Contribution of Transportation to the Economy:
Industry Snapshots
This page features the use of transportation by non-transportation industries. Non-transportation industries rely on transportation to produce goods and services.
Transportation
requirements vary by sector and within a sector, vary by industry. Sectors and industries contributing the most
to gross domestic product (top left in the figure below) tend to employ the
largest number of workers in transportation-related occupations (top right) and
use the most transportation (bottom left). As shown in the use of transportation service by industry,
some sectors and industries use a small total dollar amount of transportation
but require a large amount of transportation per dollar of output, which makes
them a transportation dependent sector. Each sector and industry requires a
different mix of transportation and transportation-related workers. Explore the requirements for each sector or
industry using the drop-down menu.
Recommended citation
U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Economic Trends, available at www.bts.gov/product/transportation-economic-trends.
Related Measures
Transportation's direct contribution to the economy
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight activity, and transportation economics, and provides context to decision makers and the public for understanding statistics on transportation.