Box C - Meaning of Shipment, Value, Tons, and Ton-Miles in the CFS

Shipment. A shipment is a single movement of goods, commodities, or products from an establishment to a single customer or to another establishment owned or operated by the same company as the originating establishment (e.g.,...

Box A - How to Interpret Shipment Value and Tonnage Data

The value and ton totals in the CFS represent the sum of separate shipments of a commodity as it moves through the production and consumption segments of the supply chain. Therefore the CFS totals are much larger than the value-added...

Figure 3 Modal Shares of U.S. Commercial Freight Shipments by Value, Weight, and Ton-Miles: 1993, 1997, and 2002*

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KEY: * 2002 data are preliminary.

NOTE: Multimodal includes the traditional intermodal...

Figure 5 Increases in U.S. Commercial Freight Shipments and Related Growth Factors: 1993-2002*

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KEY: * 2002 data used in these calculations are preliminary.

NOTE: The value of freight shipments...

Figure 3 Modal Shares of U.S. Commercial Freight Shipments by Value, Weight, and Ton-Miles: 1993, 1997, and 2002*

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(Percent)

Figure 12 Value Per Ton of Shipments by Shipment Size: 1993, 1997, 2002*

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(Commodity Flow Survey Data Only) (dollars)

Figure 9 Value Per Ton of Shipments by Distance Shipped: 1993, 1997, and 2002*

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(Commodity Flow Survey Data Only)

KEY: * 2002 data are preliminary.

NOTE: Shipments are grouped into distance...

Acknowledgements

Norman Y. Mineta Secretary

Kirk Van Tine Deputy Secretary

Rick Kowalewski Deputy Director

William J. Chang Associate Director for Information Systems

John V. Wells Chief...

Table 1 Commercial Freight Activity in the United States by Mode of Transportation: 1993, 1997, 2002*

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Figure 4 Freight Transportation and the U.S. Economy: 1970-2002

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NOTE: GDP can be classified into services, goods, and structures. Services include government consumption...