Table 8
Per Capita Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation
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| Passenger travel (2001)P |
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| Trips |
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| Annualized daily trips per persona |
1,581 |
| Daily trips per persona |
4.3 |
| Miles |
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| Annualized daily miles per persona |
15,529 |
| Daily miles per persona |
43 |
| Domestic freight transportation (2000) |
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| Tons per person, annually |
50.3 |
| Ton-miles per person, annually |
13,846 |
a Persons aged 5 and over.
Key: P = preliminary.
Notes: Data used for passenger travel are from the
preliminary National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) travel-day file and
include trips of all lengths made by respondents on a single day; about
95 percent of these daily trips were 30 miles or less. Calculations are
based on preliminary weighted estimates from the 2001 NHTS.
Sources: Passenger-USDOT, Federal Highway Administration and Bureau of
Transportation Statistics, National Household Travel Survey database, available at
http://nhts.ornl.gov, as of January 2003.
Freight-USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and U.S. Department of Commerce,
U.S. Census Bureau, 1997 Commodity Flow Survey (Washington, DC: 1999); plus additional
estimates prepared by BTS, October 2002.
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