Last month, the Apollo Alliance released a new report, Make it in America: The Apollo Clean Transportation Manufacturing Action Plan, that shows how a robust investment in public transportation would lay the foundation for a long-term, green economic recovery based on expanding the domestic production of advanced transit systems, vehicles, clean trucks, and their component parts.

The report specifically highlights the untapped manufacturing potential currently languishing in the U.S:

Due to decades of underinvestment in public transit, the U.S. transit manufacturing industry is underdeveloped. Existing public transit bus, rail vehicle and clean truck supply chains support approximately 40,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs. While relatively small today, jobs in these supply chains are spread across all 50 states, among more than 375 existing companies that could scale up to meet expanded demand.

The Alliance proposes increasing federal investment in transit and intercity rail to $40 billion annually, which  it says would double transit ridership and  support 300,000 manufacturing jobs and 3.7 million jobs in total. The report also identifies the number of manufacturing companies in New York and New Jersey that would directly benefit from Apollo’s proposal (39 in NY and 7 in NJ).

Image: Apollo Alliance report cover.