Table 1-41M: U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

(Millions)

	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Air carrier, domestic, all services^a	807	1,975	3,955	5,066	6,611	7,528	13,233	12,935	14,337	15,585	17,232	18,279	18,777	19,857	^R20,206	20,735	21,875	19,400
Intercity truck	416,092	524,130	601,509	662,827	810,285	890,583	1,073,080	1,106,659	1,189,877	1,257,036	1,325,655	1,344,634	1,419,093	1,454,132	1,499,392	1,595,750	U	U
Class I rail^b	835,555	1,018,883	1,116,600	1,101,187	1,341,653	1,280,372	1,509,566	1,516,729	1,557,471	1,619,560	1,752,990	1,906,268	1,979,686	1,969,395	2,010,093	2,092,813	2,140,261	U
Domestic water transportation
Coastwise	U	441,708	525,275	461,126	^d921,460	892,009	699,522	733,100	733,360	654,658	668,084	642,891	595,794	510,761	459,693	427,378	414,445	U
Lakewise	U	110,838	115,946	100,033	90,149	70,347	88,956	80,794	81,444	82,398	85,063	87,166	85,167	90,761	90,013	83,284	84,502	U
Internal	U	160,161	227,487	263,378	331,914	339,747	426,886	423,332	434,544	414,477	434,725	447,232	433,307	429,265	430,540	444,889	441,727	U
Intraport	U	2,392	1,721	1,785	2,331	1,609	1,587	1,413	1,387	1,346	1,887	1,971	2,153	2,012	2,016	1,988	2,176	U
Total domestic water transportation^c	U	715,099	870,428	826,321	^R1,345,855	1,303,711	1,216,951	1,238,639	1,250,736	1,152,879	1,189,759	1,179,260	1,116,422	1,032,799	982,262	957,540	942,849	U
Oil pipeline	334,334	446,752	629,248	740,206	858,756	823,862	852,770	844,594	859,632	865,618	863,428	877,589	904,015	900,073	904,891	901,825	U	U
TOTAL	2,280,477	2,706,789	3,222,159	3,336,037	4,363,857	4,305,458	4,666,071	4,720,090	4,871,927	4,911,347	5,149,322	5,325,979	5,438,397	5,375,618	5,416,497	5,568,334	U	U

KEY: R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Includes freight, express, and mail revenue tonne-kilometers as reported on U.S. DOT Form 41.

^b Revenue tonne-kilometers.

^c Excludes intraterritorial traffic, for which tonne-kilometers were not compiled.

^d Reflects startup between 1975 and 1980 of Alaska pipeline and consequent water transportation of crude petroleum from Alaskan ports to mainland United States for refining.

NOTES: Domestic water transportation numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

Numbers may differ slightly from previous year's metric tables because a higher precision conversion factor was used.

SOURCES:

Air carrier, domestic, all services:

1960-65: Civil Aeronautics Board, Handbook of Airline Statistics, 1969 (Washington, DC: 1970).

1970-80: Ibid., Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), p. 2, line 3.

1985-2001: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), p. 2, line 3.

Intercity truck:

1960-98: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 2000 (Washington, DC: 2001), p. 12.

Class I rail:

1960-99: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: 2000), p. 27.

Domestic water transportation:

1965-99: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce of the U.S. (New Orleans, LA: Annual issues), part 5, section 1, table 1-4, and similar tables in earlier editions.

Oil pipeline:

1960-70: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 1998 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 44.

1975: Association of Oil Pipe Lines, Shifts in Petroleum Transportation (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 4.

1980-99: Ibid., Shifts in Petroleum Transportation (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 1.

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Table 1-41M: U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight

Table 1-41M: U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight