Data Sources
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Each day governments, businesses, and consumers make countless decisions about what to ship, which modes to use, where to locate their facilities, and when and where to make investments. Sound data are needed to make these decisions. This page provides links to major sources of national freight transportation data.
Federal Sources of Freight Data
Transportation Infrastructure and Activity
- Commodity Flow Survey
- For-Hire Trucking (Commodity Origin and Destination) Survey
- Freight Analysis Framework (FAF)
- GeoFreight
- Highway Economics Requirements System
- Highway Statistics
- Maritime Statistics
- Motor Carrier Financial and Operating Statistical Program
- North American Transportation Statistics
- Pipeline Statistics
- Rail Waybill Data
- Transborder Surface Freight Data
- Truck Transportation, Messenger Services and Warehousing - 2003 Service Annual Survey
- Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey - Discontinued and the most recent data is from 2002.
- VTRIS W-Table Web Site
- Waterborne Commerce of the United States
General
- Agricultural Trade
- U.S. International Trade
- Fedstats: Gateways to Federal Statistics and Statistical Agencies
- National Transportation Statistics
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Transportation Energy Data Book
Economics
- National Industry and Products Account
- Surface Transportation Board Economic Data
- Transportation Satellite Account
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