Table 8
Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation Per Capita
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| Passenger travel (2001) |
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| Trips |
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| Daily trips per person |
R4.1 |
| Daily trips per person per yeara |
R1483 |
| Miles |
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| Daily miles per person |
R40 |
| Daily miles per person per yeara |
R14524 |
| Freight transportation (2000) |
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| Tons per person, annually
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50.3 |
| Ton-miles per person, annually
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13,846 |
a Calculated on an annualized basis.
Key: R = revised.
Notes: Data used for passenger travel are from the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) travel-day file and include trips of all lengths made by respondents on a single day; about 95 percent of these daily trips were 30 miles or less. Calculations are based on weighted estimates from the 2001 NHTS.
Sources: Passenger—USDOT, Federal Highway Administration and Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Household Travel Survey, available at
http://nhts.ornl.gov/2001/index.shtml, as of December 2003. Freight—USDOT, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 1997 Commodity Flow Survey (Washington, DC: 1999); BTS special tabulations, October 2002.
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