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Box B - What Isn't Covered by the CFS and BTS Estimates

Box B - What Isn't Covered by the CFS and BTS Estimates

While the BTS estimates of total freight shipments provide the most complete commercial freight picture for all modes of transportation, they exclude most shipments by the retail sector and government shipments, such as goods for defense...

Figure 1 Value, Weight, and Ton-Miles of U.S. Commercial Freight Shipments: 1993, 1997, and 2002*

Figure 1 Value, Weight, and Ton-Miles of U.S. Commercial Freight Shipments: 1993, 1997, and 2002*

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KEY: * 2002 data are preliminary.

NOTE: The value of freight shipments is inflation-adjusted with the goods...

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

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

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*

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*

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*

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)

Mode of Transportation Value Tons Ton-miles 1993 1997 2002 1993 1997...

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

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

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(Commodity Flow Survey Data Only) (dollars)

Shipment Size Year 1993 1997 2002 Less than 500 lb 12,498 15,548 18,600...

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

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...

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments U.S. Department of Transportation

Norman Y. Mineta Secretary

Kirk Van Tine Deputy Secretary

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

Rick Kowalewski Deputy Director

William J. Chang Associate Director for Information Systems

John V. Wells Chief...