Transportation and the Texas Economy: Some Interim Results

In setting the state's future spending priorities, Texans will be analyzing and evaluating the importance and dimensions of the state's transportation system and network and their role in the Texas economy. Current, accurate, and objective economic measures that delineate the importance of transportation in Texas are crucial to the public debate and policy-making process in deciding what Texans want for their transportation system. In reporting the results, the proposed project will compile, using existing U.S.- and Texas-based data sources, an economic profile of the importance of the transportation system and its services to the State of Texas, which may include: (1) All transportation outlays and the Gross Texas Product; (2) Outlays for freight transportation, total and by mode; (3) Outlays for passenger transportation, total and by mode; (4) Employment in transportation and related industries; and (5) Outlays for transportation equipment and investment in capacity.

• Record URL:
  http://tti.tamu.edu/documents/0-4871-1.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Project Title: Transportation and the Texas Economy.
• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Burke, Dock
  • Luskin, David
  • Rosa, Duane
  • Collier, Tina
• Publication Date: 2005-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 30p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic impacts; Economics; Employment; Equipment; Expenditures; Freight transportation; Investments; Passenger transportation; Transportation; Transportation policy
• Uncontrolled Terms: Capacity management; Gross state product
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Economics; Society; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01003786
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/TX-05/0-4871-1, Technical Report 0-4871-1
• Contract Numbers: Project 0-4871
• Files: TRIS, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Sep 13 2005 3:30PM