Figure 6-4. Wholesale and Retail Trade Sector's Use of Transportation by Mode, 2014

NOTE: In-house transportation consists of transportation services (air, rail, truck, and water) provided by nontransportation industries for their own use. For-hire transportation consists of the services provided by transportation firms to industries and the public on a fee-basis. Airlines, railroads, transit agencies, common carrier trucking companies, and pipelines are examples of for-hire transportation industries.
Transit and passenger ground transportation excludes State and local government passenger transit. Other transportation includes sightseeing transportation.
The wholesale and retail trade sector did not use an in-house air, rail, or water transportation in 2014.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Transportation Satellite Accounts, available at http://www.bts.gov as of Aug. 2016.