truck transportation services = trucking activity?
For an analysis we are doing, we'd like to estimate the share of trucking in the New York City-Long Island region that is associated with each industry sector. So I went to Social Accounts, Balance Sheets, Commodity Balance Sheet, selected Truck Transportation Services (3335), and selected Industry Demand. If I divide each industry's dollar input value into the total industry demand I assume I get that industry's share of regional spending on truck transportation services.
The industry shares I get from this approach are not intuitive. We have the sense from other surveys that food accounts for about 1/3 of the trucks crossing the Hudson, but it's hard to see from this table that food-related industries account for anywhere near 1/3 of spending on transportation services. Manufacturing industries appear to account for 23% of spending, but our sense is that manufacturing has a much smaller trucking footprint than that.
A first question: does truck transportation services capture trucking by company fleets?
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Hi Alex. The answer to your question is yes. The truck transportation services capture trucking by company fleets but only for local companies based in the region. So, even though there might be a lot of trucking activities crossing the New York City-Long Island region, the model only estimates truck transportation costs for local firms in the region Also, the transportation costs figures only include the cost of this service in your region. It does not include the value of merchandise hauled by those trucking companies. We hope this helps.
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