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Table 2-5 Hazardous Materials Shipments by Transportation Mode: 2012

Friday, November 4, 2016

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Transportation mode Value Tons Ton-miles1 Miles
$ 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.