Fisheries and Logging

Fishery shipments that are OOS for the CFS are those that occurred prior to the first point of processing or before arrival at a distribution center.  Once the fishery shipments reach these points, they become an in-scope commodity for the CFS.  The commodity coverage for the...

Farm Based Agricultural Shipments

Farm-based agricultural shipments represent one of the most significant OOS areas for the CFS.  This sector covers farm-based agricultural shipments from the field (i.e., farm) to grain elevator, distribution or processing center, or slaughterhouse.  These shipments are almost...

Estimation of Domestic CFS Shipments

The 2012 CFS covers approximately 70% of the domestic freight volumes by dollar value that FAF4 intends to capture, the remaining 30% being shipped by businesses outside the CFS scope.  The CFS reports origin, destination, commodity, and mode (ODCM) activity of covered...

Effects of Changes in 2012 Commodity Flow Survey

The changes in geography, commodities and modes in the 2012 CFS and their impacts on FAF4 in comparison to historical FAF data series are briefly discussed below. 

The CFS Areas are the smallest level of geographic detail for which the CFS...

Development of FAF4 Database

2.1 OVERVIEW

The FAF is built on the CFS data, while integrating additional data to estimate volumes of shipments from many industries that were not covered by the CFS.  Because it is CFS-based, 2012 CFS definitions of the 132 domestic areas, the 43 commodity codes (SCTG 2-digit...

Introduction

1.1 THE FAF PROGRAM

The Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive national picture of freight movements among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation.  It provides a national picture of current...

The Freight Analysis Framework Version 4

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Table 6 Ranking of Major Airport On-Time Departure Performance Year-to-date through July 2016

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(Percent On-Time)

Table 5 Ranking of Major Airport On-Time Departure Performance in July 2016

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(Percent On-Time)

Table 4 Ranking of Major Airport On-Time Arrival Performance Year-to-date through July 2016

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