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Box B: Mileage Calculation for the Commodity Flow Survey

Box B: Mileage Calculation for the Commodity Flow Survey

A critical measurement, calculated from the CFS data, is the mileage traveled by each shipment, used in estimating modal ton-miles of freight. BTS developed an innovative software tool, called GeoMiler,1 to calculate the distance...

Box A: How to Interpret Shipment Value and Tonnage Data

Box A: How to Interpret Shipment Value and Tonnage Data

The value and ton estimates in the Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) represent the sum of multiple shipments of a commodity as it moves through the production and distribution segments of the supply chain. Therefore, CFS totals are much larger...