Table 3-21: Average Freight Revenue Per Ton-mile (Current cents)
1960 | 1965 | 1970 | 1975 | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | |
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Air carrier, domestica | 22.80 | 20.46 | 21.91 | 28.22 | 46.31 | 48.77 | 55.84 | 61.18 | 60.64 | 60.19 | 59.86 | 61.39 | 63.68 | 63.92 | 66.88 | 68.62 | 73.85 | 60.07 | 50.60 | 54.14 | 62.23 | 74.88 | 81.54 | 89.71 | 117.96 | 98.01 | 101.53 | 121.35 | 135.45 | 136.95 | 135.67 |
Index (1990 = 100) | 41 | 37 | 39 | 51 | 83 | 87 | 100 | 110 | 109 | 108 | 107 | 110 | 114 | 114 | 120 | 123 | 132 | 108 | 91 | 97 | 111 | 134 | 146 | 161 | 211 | 176 | 182 | 217 | 243 | 245 | 243 |
Truckb | U | U | U | U | U | U | 12.88 | 12.46 | 12.96 | 13.12 | 13.56 | 13.50 | 13.98 | 14.27 | 12.89 | 13.14 | 13.75 | 13.31 | 13.09 | 13.33 | 14.24 | 15.53 | 16.52 | 16.54 | U | U | U | U | U | U | U |
Index (1990 = 100) | U | U | U | U | U | U | 100 | 97 | 101 | 102 | 105 | 105 | 109 | 111 | 100 | 102 | 107 | 103 | 102 | 103 | 111 | 121 | 128 | 128 | U | U | U | U | U | U | U |
Class I rail | 1.40 | 1.27 | 1.43 | 2.04 | 2.87 | 3.04 | 2.66 | 2.59 | 2.58 | 2.52 | 2.49 | 2.40 | 2.35 | 2.40 | 2.34 | 2.28 | 2.26 | 2.24 | 2.26 | 2.28 | 2.35 | 2.62 | 2.84 | 2.99 | 3.34 | 3.01 | 3.32 | 3.75 | 3.95 | 4.05 | 4.05 |
Index (1990 = 100) | 53 | 48 | 54 | 77 | 108 | 114 | 100 | 97 | 97 | 95 | 94 | 90 | 89 | 90 | 88 | 86 | 85 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 89 | 99 | 107 | 113 | 126 | 113 | 125 | 141 | 149 | 152 | 153 |
Barge | N | U | U | U | U | U | 1.42 | 1.41 | 1.39 | 1.36 | 1.4 | 1.63 | 1.56 | 1.5 | 1.52 | 1.58 | 1.67 | 1.75 | 1.71 | 1.77 | 1.83 | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U |
Index (1990 = 100) | N | U | U | U | U | U | 100 | 99 | 98 | 96 | 99 | 97 | 110 | 97 | 107 | 98 | 97 | 95 | 120 | 125 | 129 | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U | U |
Oil pipeline | U | U | U | U | U | U | 1.22 | 1.18 | 1.21 | 1.17 | 1.23 | 1.28 | 1.18 | 1.17 | 1.11 | 1.17 | 1.30 | 1.34 | 1.33 | 1.31 | 1.34 | 1.30 | 1.47 | 1.61 | 1.53 | 1.76 | U | U | U | U | U |
Index (1990 = 100) | U | U | U | U | U | U | 100 | 96 | 99 | 96 | 101 | 105 | 97 | 96 | 91 | 95 | 106 | 110 | 109 | 107 | 109 | 106 | 120 | 132 | 125 | 144 | U | U | U | U | U |
Producer Price Index (1990 = 100)c | 28 | 29 | 33 | 49 | 74 | 88 | 100 | 102 | 103 | 105 | 105 | 107 | 110 | 111 | 110 | 112 | 116 | 118 | 117 | 120 | 125 | 131 | 135 | 140 | 149 | 145 | 151 | 160 | 163 | 165 | 168 |
KEY: R = revised; U = data are unavailable.
a For 1990 and later, air carriers that did not report both financial data and all months of traffic data for a given period were excluded from the calculations. Cargo revenue includes both scheduled and charter property revenue and mail revenue.
b General freight common carriers, most of which are LTL (less-than-truckload) carriers.
c Total finished goods. Converted to 1990 base year index by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and therefore not comparable to previous editions of this table.
NOTE
There is a break in the data from 1985 to 1990 for Truck, Barge, and Oil pipeline; therefore, data prior to 1990 cannot be indexed using 1990 as the base year because the data are incomparable.
SOURCES
Air carrier, domestic, scheduled service:
1960: Civil Aeronautics Board, Handbook of Airline Statistics, 1969 (Washington, DC: 1970), part III, tables 2 and 13.
1965-70: Ibid., Handbook of Airline Statistics, 1973 (Washington, DC: 1974), part III, tables 2 and 13.
1975-80: Ibid., Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: 1976, 1981), pp. 4 and 14 (December 1976) and pp. 2 and 3 (December 1981).
1985: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Air Carrier Financial Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual December Issues) (freight operating revenues).
Ibid., Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual December Issues) (freight revenue ton-miles).
1990-2014: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, TranStats Database, T-1, Schedule P-11, and Schedule P-12 data, available at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/ as of June 2016, special tabulation.
Truck:
1990-2003: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America (Washington, DC: 2007), p. 46.
2004-07: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 Transportation Annual Survey (Washington, DC: January 2011), table 2.1, available at http://www.census.gov/services/ as of Aug. 9, 2011, special tabulation.
Barge:
Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America (Washington, DC: 2007), p. 46.
Oil pipeline:
PennWell Corporation, Oil and Gas Journal: Transportation Special Report (Houston, TX: September 2012 Issue), p. 127; and Association of Oil Pipe Lines, Shifts in Petroleum Transportation (Washington, DC: February 2012), table 1, available at http://www.aopl.org/publications/?fa=reports as of Mar. 12, 2012.
Class I rail:
Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), p. 34 and similar pages in previous editions.
Producer Price Index:
1960-2014: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index-Commodities, available at http://www.bls.gov/ppi/ as of Nov. 4, 2016.