This report is the first ever to examine how investments in the United State’s transportation infrastructure stimulate business activity and government revenues throughout the nation. ARTBA’s economics team uses sophisticated modeling techniques and a variety of data sources to analyze and quantify the economic impacts of the U.S. transportation construction industry at both the national and state level. The results spotlight the unique and synergistic nature of transportation capital investments – how they trigger immediate economic activity that creates and sustains jobs and tax revenues, yet yield long-lived capital assets that facilitate economic activity for many decades to come by providing access to jobs, services, materials and markets.

• The U.S. Transportation Construction Industry’s Economic Impacts
• The Scope of the U.S. Transportation Construction Industry
• The Scope & Economic Utility of the U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Network
• The Economic Impact of Interrupted Service
• The Return on Investment That Keeps Recurring
• Economic Benefits of Transportation Infrastructure Well Documented
• The Challenge Ahead: A Threat to U.S. Productivity & Competitiveness
• Methodology and Sources

State Transportation Tables (available with document purchase)

These tables provide detailed information on employment, tax collections, wages, and establishments broken out by state. Additional state information is provided for U.S. architecture, design & engineering firms, asphalt companies, concrete and cement establishments, sign and signal manufacturing firms and heavy equipment manufacturing, rental and leasing companies.

Individual State Economic Profile:

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• District of Columbia
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming