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.
Find this web page at:
http://www.bts.gov/programs/freight_transportation/
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