Table 2-5 Hazardous Materials Shipments by Transportation Mode: 2012
Transportation mode | Value | Tons | Ton-miles1 | Miles | |||
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$ Billions | Percent | Millions | Percent | Billions | Percent | Average distance per shipment | |
All modes, total | 2,334.4 | 100.0 | 2,580.2 | 100.0 | 307.5 | 100.0 | 114 |
Single modes, total | 2,304.7 | 98.7 | 2,552.9 | 98.9 | 275.6 | 89.6 | 68 |
Truck2 | 1,466.0 | 62.8 | 1,531.4 | 59.4 | 96.6 | 31.4 | 56 |
For-hire | 870.9 | 37.3 | 882.3 | 34.2 | 62.0 | 20.2 | 150 |
Private | 595.1 | 25.5 | 649.1 | 25.2 | 34.5 | 11.2 | 33 |
Rail | 79.2 | 3.4 | 111.0 | 4.3 | 84.9 | 27.6 | 808 |
Water | 217.8 | 9.3 | 283.6 | 11.0 | 54.9 | 17.9 | 212 |
Air | 4.4 | 0.2 | 0.3 | Z | 0.3 | 0.1 | 1,120 |
Pipeline3 | 537.3 | 23.0 | 626.7 | 24.3 | S | S | S |
Multiple modes, total | 29.7 | 1.3 | 27.3 | 1.1 | 31.9 | 10.4 | 654 |
Truck and rail | 13.3 | 0.6 | 17.0 | 0.7 | 16.6 | 5.4 | 954 |
Truck and water | S | S | S | S | S | S | 1,181 |
Rail and water | 2.5 | 0.1 | 4.6 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 0.4 | S |
Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or Courier | 10.3 | 0.4 | 0.3 | Z | 0.2 | 0.1 | 650 |
Other multiple modes | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Other modes | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 |
KEY: S = data are not published because estimate did not meet publication standards; Z = rounds to zero.
1 Ton-miles estimates are based on estimated distances traveled along a modeled transportation network.
2 Truck as a single mode includes shipments that went by private truck only or by for-hire truck only.
3 Excludes crude petroleum shipments.
NOTES: Value-of-shipment estimates have not been adjusted for price changes. Numbers and percents may not add to totals due to rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 2012 Commodity Flow Survey, Hazardous Materials (Washington, DC: February 2015), table 1a, available at www.census.gov/econ/cfs/2012/ec12tcf-us-hm.pdf as of July 2015.