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Table 9
Passenger Travel and Freight Transportation Per Capita
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| Passenger travel
(2001) |
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| Trips |
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| Daily trips per person |
4.1 |
| Daily trips per person
per yeara |
1,483 |
| Miles |
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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 |
40.5 |
| Ton-miles per person, annually |
10,882 |
a Calculated on an annualized
basis.
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, and U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S.
Census Bureau, 2002 Commodity Flow Survey
United States-Final, available at
http://www.bts.gov/publications/commodity_flow_survey/2002/united_states_final/,
as of December 2004.
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