Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
3 FIGURES AND TABLES Figures: Figure 1. Composition of Internal Tonnage by Waterway Figure 2. Per Capita Growth in GDP, Personal Consumption and Disposable Income Figure 3. Total Housing Starts in the United States (Seasonally Adjusted at Annual Rates) Figure 4. Industrial Production, Total Capacity Utilization and Purchasing Manager Index Figure 5. Real ($2005 Chain-Weighted) Exports & Imports Figure 6. Recent Real Manufacturing & Trade Inventories and Inventory/Sales Ratios Figure 7. Recent Retail Sales in Real U.S. dollars Figure 8. Real and Nominal Urban Gas Prices in U.S. Cents per Gallon Figure 9. Backcast versus Actual Rail Revenue Ton-Miles Figure 10. Backcast versus Actual Truck Ton-Miles Figure 11. Backcast versus Actual Truck VMT Tables: Table 1 - Chosen Independent Factors Table 2 - Cross-correlations among the independent variables Table 3 - Correlation Ranks of Candidate Demand Factors Table 4 - Lag Correlations in Comparison with Prior Year Table 5 â Interpretation of models using natural logarithm transformations Table 6 - Potential Factor Weights (Log Actual Models) of Independent Variables
