Transportation Sector's Economic Contribution

Transportation plays a major role in our everyday lives. High quality transportation resources are vital to the growth of all sectors of the economy. Transportation factors are a central concern to the industry site selection process.

Just how important are transportation-related industries to our national economy?

They represent $984 billion in final demand to our nation's gross domestic product (GDP), or 10.7 percent of GDP. Click here to learn more about the economic contribution to the transportation sector of our economy, which includes all private and public investments and expenditures on transportation.

You may want to bookmark the Bureau of Transportation Statistics as a future data source. It's a great one.