Economic concepts related to transportation spending.

Economic concepts related to transportation as an economic indicator.

Heavy trucks include trucks with more than 14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight. Prior to the 2003 Benchmark Revision heavy trucks were more than 10,000 pounds. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis releases auto and truck sales data, which are used in the preparation of estimates of personal consumption expenditures.

Employment in transportation by industry and occupation

Employed persons include people aged 16 years and older in the civilian noninstitutional population who did any work at all as paid employees; worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of the family; and all those who were not working but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces industry estimates of nonfarm payroll employment as part of the Current Population Survey.

This dataset provides interactive data on the value and weight of shipments by the origin or destination state of U.S exports and imports by commodity. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: https://www.bts.gov/statistical-products/transborder-freight-data/north-american-transborder-freight-data-faqs TRANSBORDER RAW DATA: https://www.bts.gov/topics/transborder-raw-data CODES FOR NORTH AMERICAN TRANSBORDER FREIGHT RAW DATA: https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/transborder-freight-data/all-codes-north-american-transborder

Total and percent of rural population with access to scheduled intercity bus, rail, and air transportation. Rural areas are Census block groups with their centroid (center) outside of all Census urban areas. Summarized to county level. Facilities used available at: https://data.transportation.gov/Research-and-Statistics/Intercity-Air-Bus-and-Rail-Transportation-Faciliti/xnub-2sc4.

Interactive map showing access to intercity transportation in rural areas:
https://datahub.transportation.gov/stories/s/Rural-Access-to-Intercity-Transportation/gr9y-9gjq/edit

Methodology:
https://datahub.transportation.gov/stories/s/dbb4-pr2c

Transportation multifactor productivity

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics calculates this index based on the American Trucking Association’s monthly Truck Tonnage Index.

Personal spending on transportation services includes spending on motor vehicle services, such as maintenance and repair, and public transportation, including rail transportation, intercity buses, taxicabs and ride sharing services, intracity mass transit, air transportation, and water transportation. The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates personal consumption expenditures, the primary measure of consumer spending on goods and services in the U.S. economy, for each quarter and releases new statistics every month. Quarterly PCE data are seasonally adjusted at annual rates to remove the effects of normal seasonal variation.