TABLE A-4 - Hazardous Versus Nonhazardous Material Shipment Characteristics by Mode of Transportation: 2007
TABLE A-4 - Hazardous Versus Nonhazardous Material Shipment Characteristics by Mode of Transportation: 2007
Mode | Tons (thousands) | Ton-miles (millions) | ||||||||
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Total | Hazardous | Nonhazardous | Total | Hazardous | Nonhazardous | |||||
2007 | Percent | 2007 | Percent | 2007 | Percent | 2007 | Percent | |||
Total | 12,543,425 | 2,231,133 | 17.8 | 10,312,292 | 82.2 | 3,344,658 | 323,457 | 9.7 | 3,021,201 | 90.3 |
Truck | 8,778,713 | 1,202,825 | 13.7 | 7,575,888 | 86.3 | 1,342,104 | 103,997 | 7.7 | 1,238,107 | 92.3 |
For-Hire Truck | 4,075,136 | 495,077 | 12.1 | 3,580,060 | 87.9 | 1,055,646 | 63,288 | 6 | 992,359 | 94 |
Private Truck | 4,703,576 | 707,748 | 15 | 3,995,828 | 85 | 286,457 | 40,709 | 14.2 | 245,748 | 85.8 |
Rail | 1,861,307 | 129,743 | 7 | 1,731,564 | 93 | 1,344,040 | 92,169 | 6.9 | 1,251,871 | 93.1 |
Water | 403,639 | 149,794 | 37.1 | 253,845 | 62.9 | 157,314 | 37,064 | 23.6 | 120,251 | 76.4 |
Air | 3,611 | S | S | 3,256 | 90.2 | 4,510 | S | S | 4,334 | 96.1 |
Pipeline | 650,859 | 628,905 | 96.6 | 21,954 | 3.4 | S | S | S | S | S |
Multiple Modes | 573,729 | 111,022 | 19.4 | 462,708 | 80.6 | 416,642 | 42,886 | 10.3 | 373,756 | 89.7 |
Parcel | 33,900 | 236 | 0.7 | 33,664 | 99.3 | 27,961 | 151 | 0.5 | 27,810 | 99.5 |
Other Multiple Modes | 113,841 | 56,750 | 49.8 | 57,092 | 50.2 | 46,402 | 17,297 | 37.3 | 29,105 | 62.7 |
Other and Unknown Modes | 271,567 | 8,489 | 3.1 | 263,078 | 96.9 | 33,764 | 1,466 | 4.3 | 32,298 | 95.7 |
KEY: S = Estimate did not meet publication standards.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2007 Commodity Flow Survey, Hazardous Materials, table 2a, available at http://www.bts.gov/publications/commodity_flow_survey/ as of Nov. 18, 2010.