BTS | Table 1-41M: U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight

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Table 1-41M: U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight

(Millions)

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Air carrier, domestic, all services^a	807	1,975	3,955	5,066	6,611	7,528	13,233	12,935	14,337	15,585	17,232	18,279	18,777	19,857	^R20,206	20,735	21,875	19,400
Intercity truck	416,092	524,130	601,509	662,827	810,285	890,583	1,073,080	1,106,659	1,189,877	1,257,036	1,325,655	1,344,634	1,419,093	1,454,132	1,499,392	1,595,750	U	U
Class I rail^b	835,555	1,018,883	1,116,600	1,101,187	1,341,653	1,280,372	1,509,566	1,516,729	1,557,471	1,619,560	1,752,990	1,906,268	1,979,686	1,969,395	2,010,093	2,092,813	2,140,261	U
Domestic water transportation
Coastwise	U	441,708	525,275	461,126	^d921,460	892,009	699,522	733,100	733,360	654,658	668,084	642,891	595,794	510,761	459,693	427,378	414,445	U
Lakewise	U	110,838	115,946	100,033	90,149	70,347	88,956	80,794	81,444	82,398	85,063	87,166	85,167	90,761	90,013	83,284	84,502	U
Internal	U	160,161	227,487	263,378	331,914	339,747	426,886	423,332	434,544	414,477	434,725	447,232	433,307	429,265	430,540	444,889	441,727	U
Intraport	U	2,392	1,721	1,785	2,331	1,609	1,587	1,413	1,387	1,346	1,887	1,971	2,153	2,012	2,016	1,988	2,176	U
Total domestic water transportation^c	U	715,099	870,428	826,321	^R1,345,855	1,303,711	1,216,951	1,238,639	1,250,736	1,152,879	1,189,759	1,179,260	1,116,422	1,032,799	982,262	957,540	942,849	U
Oil pipeline	334,334	446,752	629,248	740,206	858,756	823,862	852,770	844,594	859,632	865,618	863,428	877,589	904,015	900,073	904,891	901,825	U	U
TOTAL	2,280,477	2,706,789	3,222,159	3,336,037	4,363,857	4,305,458	4,666,071	4,720,090	4,871,927	4,911,347	5,149,322	5,325,979	5,438,397	5,375,618	5,416,497	5,568,334	U	U

KEY: R = revised; U = data are not available.

^a Includes freight, express, and mail revenue tonne-kilometers as reported on U.S. DOT Form 41.

^b Revenue tonne-kilometers.

^c Excludes intraterritorial traffic, for which tonne-kilometers were not compiled.

^d Reflects startup between 1975 and 1980 of Alaska pipeline and consequent water transportation of crude petroleum from Alaskan ports to mainland United States for refining.

NOTES: Domestic water transportation numbers may not add to totals due to rounding.

Numbers may differ slightly from previous year's metric tables because a higher precision conversion factor was used.

SOURCES:

Air carrier, domestic, all services:

1960-65: Civil Aeronautics Board, Handbook of Airline Statistics, 1969 (Washington, DC: 1970).

1970-80: Ibid., Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), p. 2, line 3.

1985-2001: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual issues), p. 2, line 3.

Intercity truck:

1960-98: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 2000 (Washington, DC: 2001), p. 12.

Class I rail:

1960-99: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: 2000), p. 27.

Domestic water transportation:

1965-99: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce of the U.S. (New Orleans, LA: Annual issues), part 5, section 1, table 1-4, and similar tables in earlier editions.

Oil pipeline:

1960-70: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America, 1998 (Washington, DC: 1998), p. 44.

1975: Association of Oil Pipe Lines, Shifts in Petroleum Transportation (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 4.

1980-99: Ibid., Shifts in Petroleum Transportation (Washington, DC: Annual issues), table 1.