(Current Cents)

Embedded Dataset Excel:

Dataset Excel:

Notes:

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.

Description:

KEY: N = data does not exist; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^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.

Source:

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: Civil Aeronautics Board, Handbook of Airline Statistics, 1973 (Washington, DC: 1974), part III, tables 2 and 13.

1975-80: Civil Aeronautics Board, 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 Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC:  Annual December Issues) (freight revenue ton-miles).

1990-2022: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, TranStats Database, T-1, Schedule P-1.1, and Schedule P-1.2 data, available at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/ as of Sep. 22, 2023, special tabulation.

Truck:

As cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, Truck Profile, available at https://www.bts.gov/content/truck-profile as of May 24, 2023, special tabulation.

Class I rail:

Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), p. 34 and similar pages in previous editions.

Water Transportation, domestic:

1990-2004: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America (Washington, DC: 2007), p. 46.

2009-20: As cited in U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, Water Transport Profile, available at https://www.bts.gov/content/water-transport-profile as of Jul. 7, 2022, special tabulation.

Oil pipeline:

1960-2007: 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.

2008-22: PennWell Corporation, Oil and Gas Journal: Transportation Special Report (Houston, TX: October 2019 Issue), p. 44; and U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Freight Analysis Framework, available at https://www.bts.gov/faf, as of Oct. 6, 2023, special tabulation.

Producer Price Index:

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Producer Price Index-Commodities, available at http://www.bls.gov/ppi/ as of May 24, 2023.