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What America Sp ends on Transport
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MERICA spent 112,000 m.
dollars (£39,300 m.) on transport in 1., reveals the Transportation Associaof America. This huge sum repres 20-2 per cent of their gross national Met.
f this total, 59,368 m. dollars was the nated passenger bill, with the balance 8,313 m. dollars being spent on freight rement. In the former group it is ificant that 51,222 m. dollars is ibuted to personal and business use private cars—almost 46 per cent of total U.S. transport expenditure.
in the freight side, whilst 33,158 m. ars was the estimated expenditure on transport. rail expenditure amounted to only 8,996 m. dollars. Oil pipe lines expenditure M 1962 was reckoned at 1,068 m. dollars.
Relative to the trend in private trans port, as recently as 1958 total expenditure was 38,545 m. dollars compared with 51,222 m. dollars last year, an increase of more than 32 per cent.
More by Road in U.S.A.: American intercity goods tonnage hauled by road rose by 2-6 per cent during the first half of this year. as compared with January-June, 1962. according to figures released by the American Trucking Associations Inc. The hauliers represented in the survey—nearly one third of all general freight carriers—hauled 36.920,614 short tons. as against 35.976.477 Ions for the 1962 period