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Table 8
Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation Per Capita
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| Passenger travel
(2001) |
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| Trips |
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Daily trips per person |
4.1 |
| Daily trips per person per yeara |
1,483 |
| Miles |
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Daily miles per person |
40 |
| Daily miles per person per yeara |
14,524 |
| Domestic freight
transportation (2002)P |
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| Tons per person, annually |
40.1 |
| Ton-miles per person, annually |
11,112 |
a Calculated on an annualized basis.
Key: P = preliminary.
Notes: Data used for passenger travel are from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) travel-day file and include trips of all lengths; about 95 percent of these daily trips were 30 miles or less. Calculations are based on weighted estimates from the 2001 NHTS.
Sources: Passenger-U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Household Travel Survey, available at http://www.bts.gov/programs/national_household_travel_survey, as of November 2004.
Freight-USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2002 Commodity Flow Survey United States-Preliminary, available at http://www.bts.gov, as of November 2004.
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