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Table 21
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| Mode | Value | Tons | Ton-miles |
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| Total | 8,483 | 11,573 | 3,204 |
| Truck (for-hire and private) | 6,200 | 7,622 | 1,311 |
| Rail | 320 | 1,817 | 1,199 |
| Water | 91 | 714 | 323 |
| Air (includes truck and air) | 279 | 4 | 6 |
| Pipelinea | 162 | 722 | S |
| Intermodal totalb | 1,111 | 198 | 215 |
| Parcel, postal, and courier services | 1,022 | 26 | 21 |
| Truck and rail | 63 | 41 | 47 |
| Other intermodal combinations | 26 | 131 | 147 |
| Unknown | 319 | 496 | 77 |
a Estimates of pipeline exclude shipments of crude petroleum.
b Includes a combination of parcel, postal, and courier services; truck and rail; and other intermodal combinations, including truck and water and rail and water. Excludes truck and air combination, which is added to air transportation.
KEY: S = Estimate does not meet publication standards due to high sampling variability or poor response quality.
NOTE: The data presented in this table exclude shipments from the following establishments classified in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) as: farms, forestry, logging, fisheries, construction, publishing, and crude petroleum production; households; governments; and most retail and service businesses. It also excludes most imports and commodities shipped from a foreign location to another foreign destination, passing through the United States.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau,2002 Economic Census:Transportation Commodity Flow Survey, Preliminary report, December 2003.