BTS | Table 2-4 - Domestic- and Export-Bound Freight Shipments within the United States: 1993 and 1997

Table 2-4
Domestic- and Export-Bound Freight Shipments within the United States: 1993 and 1997

Mode	Value (millions of chained 1997 $)			Tons (thousands)			Ton-miles (millions)
Mode	1993^R	1997^P	Change (%)	1993^R	1997^P	Change (%)	1993^R	1997^P	Change (%)
Parcel, postal, courier services	616,839	865,661	40.3	18,892	24,677	30.6	13,151	18,512	40.8
Truck (for-hire, private, both)	4,822,222	5,518,716	14.4	6,385,915	7,992,437	25.2	869,536	1,094,924	25.9
Rail (includes truck and rail)	361,901	383,222	5.9	1,584,772	1,538,538	-2.9	980,236	1,050,517	7.2
Water^a	197,370	195,461	-1.0	1,465,966	1,522,756	3.9	827,089	801,614	-3.1
Air (includes truck and air)	152,313	213,405	40.1	3,139	5,047	60.8	4,009	7,449	85.8
Pipeline^a	340,664	330,176	-3.1	1,870,496	1,881,209	0.6	641,669	690,490	7.6
Other and unknown modes	283,106	447,908	58.2	706,690	753,848	6.7	233,216	266,732	14.4
BTS total (CFS + additional estimates)	$6,774,414	$7,954,549	17.4	12,035,870	13,718,512	14.0	3,568,906	3,930,238	10.1

^a Preliminary Oak Ridge National Laboratory estimates prepared for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1999.

KEY: P = preliminary; R = revised (includes modal estimates not shown separately).

SOURCES: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau,1993 Commodity Flow Survey: United States,TC92-CF-52 (Washington, DC: 1995).

____. 1997 Commodity Flow Survey: United States Preliminary,EC97TCF-US(P) (Washington, DC: 1999).