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Freight Facts and Figures 2008

Figure 4-1. Value Added by Freight Transportation to GDP by Transportation Mode: 1992 and 1996

Freight transportation is a big part of the economy.  The value generated by transportation services in moving goods and people on the transportation system is about 5 percent of GDP. Of this 5 percent, three-fifths is generated by for-hire transportation services, and the rest is generated by in-house transportation (transportation provided by businesses for their own use). Most in-house transportation is inhouse trucking, which contributed 40 percent more value to GDP than for-hire trucking in 1996 (the latest year for which data are available).

Figure 4-1. Bar chart. Data is described in text above and table below.

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Data represented in the figure.

Table in Excel format

Billions of current dollars

Blank cell. Railroad Water Pipeline For-hire
trucking
In-house
trucking
1992 34 13 20 83 122
1996 42 11 23 101 142

Source:

U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, special tabulation, September 2000.

 

 


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