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Table 3-21: Average Freight Revenue Per Ton-mile (Current ¢)

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	1960	1965	1970	1975	1980	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Air carrier, domestica	22.80	20.46	21.91	28.22	46.31	48.77	55.84	61.18	60.64	60.19	59.86	61.39	63.68	63.92	66.88	68.62	73.85	(R) 59.88	(R) 50.48	(R) 54.00	(R) 62.06	(R) 74.68	(R) 81.32	(R) 89.46	(R) 117.61	(R) 97.72	101.22
Index (1990 = 100)	41	37	39	51	83	87	100	110	109	108	107	110	114	114	120	123	132	(R) 107	(R) 90	(R) 97	(R) 111	(R) 134	(R) 146	(R) 160	(R) 211	(R) 175	181
Truckb	U	U	U	U	U	U	12.88	12.46	12.96	13.12	13.56	13.5	13.98	14.27	12.89	13.14	13.75	13.31	13.09	13.33	14.24	15.53	16.52	16.54	U	U	U
Index (1990 = 100)	U	U	U	U	U	U	100	97	101	102	105	105	109	111	100	102	107	103	102	103	111	121	128	128	U	U	U
Class I rail	1.40	1.27	1.43	2.04	2.87	3.04	2.66	2.59	2.58	2.52	2.49	(R) 2.40	2.35	2.40	2.34	2.28	2.26	2.24	2.26	2.28	2.35	2.62	2.84	2.99	3.34	3.01	3.33
Index (1990 = 100)	53	48	54	77	108	114	100	97	97	95	94	(R) 90	88	90	88	86	85	84	85	86	88	99	107	112	126	113	125
Barge	N	U	U	U	U	U	1.42	1.41	1.39	1.36	1.4	1.63	1.56	1.5	1.52	1.58	1.67	1.75	1.71	1.77	1.83	U	U	U	U	U	U
Index (1990 = 100)	N	U	U	U	U	U	100	99	98	96	99	97	110	97	107	98	97	95	120	125	129	U	U	U	U	U	U
Oil pipeline	U	U	U	U	U	U	1.22	1.18	1.21	1.17	1.23	1.28	1.18	1.17	1.11	1.17	1.30	1.34	1.33	1.31	1.34	1.30	1.47	1.61	(R) 1.53	1.76	U
Index (1990 = 100)	U	U	U	U	U	U	100	96	99	96	101	105	97	96	91	95	106	110	109	107	109	106	120	132	(R) 125	144	U
Producer Price Index (1990 = 100) c	28	29	33	49	74	88	100	102	103	105	105	107	110	111	110	112	116	118	117	120	125	131	135	140	149	145	(P) 151

KEY: P = data are preliminary; R = revised; U = data are unavailable.

^a For 1990 and later, air carriers that did not report both financial data and all months of traffic data for a given period were excluded from the calculations. Cargo revenue includes both scheduled and charter property revenue and mail revenue.

^b General freight common carriers, most of which are LTL (less-than-truckload) carriers.

^c Total finished goods. Converted to 1990 base year index by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and therefore not comparable to previous editions of this table.

NOTE

There is a break in the data from 1985 to 1990 for Truck, Barge, and Oil pipeline; therefore, data prior to 1990 cannot be indexed using 1990 as the base year because the data are incomparable.

SOURCES

Air carrier, domestic, scheduled service:

1960: Civil Aeronautics Board, Handbook of Airline Statistics, 1969 (Washington, DC: 1970), part III, tables 2 and 13.

1965-70: Ibid., Handbook of Airline Statistics, 1973 (Washington, DC: 1974), part III, tables 2 and 13.

1975-80: Ibid., Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: 1976, 1981), pp. 4 and 14 (December 1976) and pp. 2 and 3 (December 1981).

1985: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Office of Airline Information, Air Carrier Financial Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual December Issues) (freight operating revenues).

Ibid., Air Carrier Traffic Statistics (Washington, DC: Annual December Issues) (freight revenue ton-miles).

1990-2010: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, TranStats Database, T-1, Schedule P-11, and Schedule P-12 data, available at http://www.transtats.bts.gov/ as of December 2011, special tabulation.

Truck:

1990-2003: Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America (Washington, DC: 2007), p. 46.

2004-07: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, 2009 Transportation Annual Survey (Washington, DC: January 2011), table 2.1, available at http://www.census.gov/services/ as of Aug. 9, 2011, special tabulation.

Barge:

Eno Transportation Foundation, Inc., Transportation in America (Washington, DC: 2007), p. 46.

Oil pipeline:

PennWell Corporation, Oil and Gas Journal: Transportation Special Report (Houston, TX: September 2011 Issue), p. 94; and Association of Oil Pipe Lines, Shifts in Petroleum Transportation (Washington, DC: February 2012), table 1, available at http://www.aopl.org/publications/?fa=reports as of Mar. 12, 2012.

Class I rail:

Association of American Railroads, Railroad Facts (Washington, DC: Annual Issues), p. 30 and similar pages in previous editions.

Producer Price Index:

Council of Economic Advisors, 2011 Economic Report of the President (Washington, DC: 2011), table B-65, available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/ as of December 2011.