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Table 4-1
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| Number | |
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| Passenger travel Trips (2001) | |
| Daily trips per person | 4.1 |
| Daily trips per person per yeara | 1,483 |
| Passenger travel Miles (2001) | |
| Daily miles per person | 40 |
| Daily miles per person per yeara | 14,524 |
| Domestic freight transportation (2002) | |
| Tons per person, annually | R68 |
| Ton-miles per person, annually | R15,311 |
a Calculated on an annualized basis.
Key: R = revised
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 Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), National Household Travel Survey (Washington, DC: 2002). Freight-USDOT, RITA, BTS, based on tonnage and ton-miles data from Freight In America: A New National Picture, January 2006, available at www.bts.gov, as of December 2006.