Table 15
U.S. Commercial Freight Shipments: 1997
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| Truck (for-hire,private, both) |
5,336 |
62.3 |
8,836 |
59.7 |
1,109 |
28.8 |
| Parcel, postal,courier services |
856 |
10.0 |
34 |
0.2 |
18 |
0.5 |
| Water |
762 |
8.9 |
2,220 |
15.0 |
726 |
18.9 |
| Air (includes truck and air) |
653 |
7.6 |
10 |
0.1 |
6 |
0.2 |
| Rail (includestruck and air) |
436 |
5.1 |
1,676 |
11.3 |
1,132 |
29.4 |
| Pipeline |
231 |
2.7 |
1,448 |
9.8 |
656 |
17.0 |
| Other andunknown modes |
293 |
3.4 |
576 |
3.9 |
204 |
5.3 |
| Totala |
$8,567 |
100.0 |
14,800 |
100.0 |
3,851 |
100.0 |
a Data from the Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), plus Bureau of Transportation Statistics estimates to fill in CFS gaps. The estimates cover out-of-scope farm-based truck shipments, truck and rail imports from Canada and Mexico, and air cargo and water imports and exports.
Sources: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, 1997 Commodity Flow Survey: United States (Washington, DC: December 1999); and Oak Ridge National Laboratory data.
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