Table 20 U.S. Domestic Freight Shipments by Mode: Preliminary 2002
Table 20 U.S. Domestic Freight Shipments by Mode: Preliminary 2002
(Commodity Flow Survey data only)
| Mode | Value ($ billions) |
Tons (millions) |
Ton-miles (billions) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 8,483 | 11,573 | 3,204 |
| Truck (for-hire and private) | 6,200 | 7,622 | 1,311 |
| Rail | 320 | 1,817 | 1,199 |
| Water | 91 | 714 | 323 |
| Air (includes truck and air) | 279 | 4 | 6 |
| Pipelinea | 162 | 722 | S |
| Intermodal totalb | 1,111 | 198 | 215 |
| Parcel, postal, and courier services | 1,022 | 26 | 21 |
| Truck and rail | S | S | S |
| Other intermodal combinations | 26 | 131 | 147 |
| Unknown | 319 | 496 | 77 |
a Estimates of pipeline exclude shipments of crude petroleum.
b Includes a combination of parcel, postal, and courier services; truck and rail; and other intermodal combinations, including truck and water and rail and water. Excludes truck and air combination, which is added to air transportation.
Key: S = withheld due to high sampling variability or poor response quality.
Note: The data presented in this table exclude shipments from the following establishments classified in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) as: farms, forestry, logging, fisheries, construction, publishing, and crude petroleum production; households; governments; and most retail and service businesses. Also excluded are most imports and commodities shipped from a foreign location to another foreign destination that pass through the United States.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, "2002 Economic Census: Transportation Commodity Flow Survey, Preliminary Report," December 2003.