Table 8 Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation Per Capita
Table 8 Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation Per Capita
| Number | |
|---|---|
| Passenger travel (2001) | |
| Trips | |
| Daily trips per person | 4.1 |
| Daily trips per person per yeara | 1,483 |
| Miles | |
| Daily miles per person | 40 |
| Daily miles per person per yeara | 14,524 |
| Domestic freight transportation (2002)P | |
| Tons per person, annually | 40.1 |
| Ton-miles per person, annually | 11,112 |
a Calculated on an annualized basis.
Key: P = preliminary.
Notes: Data used for passenger travel are from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) travel-day file and include trips of all lengths; about 95 percent of these daily trips were 30 miles or less. Calculations are based on weighted estimates from the 2001 NHTS.
Sources: Passenger-U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Household Travel Survey, available at http://www.bts.gov/programs/national_household_travel_survey, as of November 2004.
Freight-USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2002 Commodity Flow Survey United States-Preliminary, available at http://www.bts.gov, as of November 2004.