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Freight Data and Statistics
Quick Facts
- What is shipped: commodities, hazardous materials shipments
- Top commodities by: value, weight, ton-miles
- Mode of transport: air, truck, air/truck, rail, pipeline, water, multimodal
- Where: domestic freight, TransBorder, international, state transportation profiles,
commodity flow survey state profiles
- Trends: shipment size, modal shares, length of haul, 2002 vs.1993 trends
- Economic impact: of shipment choices, on transportation, of freight
Domestic
On a typical day, about 43 million tons of goods, valued at about $29 billion, moved nearly 12 billion ton-miles on the nation's interconnected transportation network, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
International
U.S. households and businesses are acquiring more products, appliances, machinery, and equipment, and foreign trade has more than doubled between 1980 and 2002.
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