Table 3-3: Shipments Originating in North Carolina by Mode of Transportation: 1997
Table 3-3: Shipments Originating in North Carolina by Mode of Transportation: 1997
| Value | Short tons | Ton-miles | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number ($ millions) |
Percent | Number (thousands) |
Percent | Number (millions) | Percent | |
| All modes | 267,172 | 100.0 | 280,915 | 100.0 | 46,341 | 100.0 |
| Single modes | 242,306 | 90.7 | 277,201 | 98.7 | 44,541 | 96.1 |
| Truck | 232,955 | 87.2 | 262,550 | 93.5 | 38,812 | 83.8 |
| For-hire | 147,270 | 55.1 | 99,715 | 35.5 | 24,770 | 53.5 |
| Private truck | 82,815 | 31.0 | 153,588 | 54.7 | 13,590 | 29.3 |
| Rail | 2,512 | 0.9 | 11,571 | 4.1 | 5,396 | 11.6 |
| Water | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| Shallow draft | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| Great Lakes | Z | Z | Z | Z | Z | Z |
| Deep draft | Z | Z | Z | Z | Z | Z |
| Air (including truck and air) | 6,258 | 2.3 | 97 | Z | 93 | 0.2 |
| Pipeline | 299 | 0.1 | 1,312 | 0.5 | S | S |
| Multiple modes | 18,458 | 6.9 | 691 | 0.2 | 664 | 1.4 |
| Parcel, U.S. Postal Service, or courier service | 18,035 | 6.8 | 552 | 0.2 | 349 | 0.8 |
| Truck and rail intermodal combination | 358 | 0.1 | 133 | Z | 294 | 0.6 |
| Truck and water | S | S | 5 | Z | 21 | Z |
| Rail and water | Z | Z | Z | Z | Z | Z |
| Other multiple modes | S | S | S | S | S | S |
| Other and unknown modes | 6,408 | 2.4 | 3,023 | 1.1 | 1,135 | 2.4 |
KEY: S = data do not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability or other reasons; Z = zero or less than 1 unit of measurement.
NOTE: The Commodity Flow Survey covers business establishments in mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, and selected retail industries. The survey also covers selected auxiliary establishments (e.g. warehouses) of in-scope multiunit and retail companies. The survey excludes establishments classified as farms, forestry, fisheries, governments, construction, transportation, foreign establishments, services, and most establishments in retail. Due to industry-wide reporting problems, shipments by oil and gas extraction establishments are also excluded.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 1997 Commodity Flow Survey: United States, Washington, DC: 1999, available at http://www.bts.gov/ntda/cfs/cfs97od.html as of Nov. 2, 2001.