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Table 4-1
Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation Per Capita
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| Passenger travel Trips
(2001) |
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| Daily trips per person |
4.1 |
| Daily trips per person per yeara |
1,483 |
| Passenger travel Miles
(2001) |
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| Daily miles per person |
40 |
| Daily miles per person per yeara |
14,524 |
| Domestic freight
transportation (2002) |
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| Tons per person, annually |
R68 |
| Ton-miles per person, annually |
R15,311 |
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; about 95 percent of these daily trips were 30 miles or less.
Calculations are based on weighted estimates from the 2001 NHTS.
Sources: Passenger-U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), Federal Highway
Administration and Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA),
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), National
Household Travel Survey (Washington, DC:
2002). Freight-USDOT, RITA, BTS, based on tonnage and ton-miles data from Freight In America: A New National Picture, January 2006, available at www.bts.gov, as of December
2006.
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