2002 FAF Commodity Origin-Destination Database Dictionary
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Report Number 6 (R6)
Table of Contents
| Data Descriptions |
|---|
| FAF Regions |
| Gateways |
| Foreign Trade Regions |
| SCTG - Commodity Code |
| Transportation Modes |
| Data Definitions |
| Acronyms |
| Data Sources |
| Data Records |
2002 FAF Commodity Origin-Destination Database Dictionary
Data Descriptions
The 2002 FAF includes 3 four-dimensional matrices (for tons and value) in which the four dimensions are origin, destination, commodity, and mode -- referred to as the Freight Flow Database: Origins and destinations consist of 114 regions as defined and used in the 2002 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) plus 17 additional international gateways and 7 international regions. Commodities are defined at the 2-digit SCTG (Standard Classification of Transported Goods) level. The complete FAF 2002 U.S. Commodity Flows Matrix contains 138 x 138 origin-to-destination (O-D) region shipments, broken down by 43 commodity classes and by 7 major mode/mode combinations.
Figure 1 shows the 131 FAF geographic regions that are internal to the United States.
Metropolitan areas shown in green, gateways shown in purple. Not shown: Alaska (3), Honolulu (26), Hawaii (27), and the Anchorage Gateway (115)
| ID | Zone |
|---|---|
| 132 | Canada |
| 133 | Mexico |
| 134 | Latin and South America |
| 135 | Asia |
| 136 | Europe |
| 137 | Rest of World |
| 138 | Middle East |
Data Definitions
Commodity. Based on the definition used by the 2002 U.S. Commodity Flow Survey, commodities are products that an establishment produces, sells, or distributes. This category does not include items that are considered as excess or byproducts of the establishment's operation. Respondents reported the description and the five-digit Standard Classification of Transported Goods (SCTG) code for the major commodity contained in the shipment, defined as the commodity with the greatest weight in the total shipment.
Shipment. A shipment is a single movement of goods, commodities, or products from an establishment to a single customer or to another establishment owned or operated by the same company as the originating establishment (e.g., a warehouse, distribution center, or retail or wholesale outlet). Full or partial truckloads are counted as a single shipment only if all commodities on the truck are destined for the same location. If a truck makes multiple deliveries on a route, each stop is counted as one shipment.
Standard Classification of Transported Goods (SCTG). The SCTG coding system is used to classify the commodities listed in this report. The SCTG coding system was developed jointly by agencies of the United States and Canadian governments based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) to address statistical needs in regard to products transported.
Tons shipped. This represents the total weight of all shipments transported between any pair of FAF regions or within a FAF region during the course of the calendar year. Tons, in the FAF, are stated as short-tons (2,000 pounds). For freight shipped to distribution centers for subsequent reshipment, the tonnage is counted each time the goods are transported. As with value of shipments, the tonnage of a product could be counted multiple times depending on the number of times the product is transported in the production and consumption cycle. Thus, tons shipped can be, and frequently are, multiples of the estimated tons of a commodity as measured for the purposes of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Value of commodities transported. This is defined as the net selling value, f.o.b. plant, exclusive of freight charges and excise taxes. The value data are displayed in millions of 2002 U.S. dollars.
The total value of shipments, as measured by the 2002 Commodity Flow Survey, and hence by FAF, and the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) provide different measures of economic activity in the United States and are not directly comparable. GDP is the value of all goods produced and services performed by labor and capital located in the United States. In 2002, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at $10.4 trillion (measured in current U.S. dollars). The value of shipments, as measured by ORNL, is the market value of goods shipped from manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and mail-order retail establishments, as well as warehouses and managing offices of multi-unit establishments. This is estimated to be 13 trillion dollars in 2002.
Three important differences can be identified between GDP and value of shipments:
- GDP captures goods produced by all establishments located in the United States, while FAF measures goods shipped from a subset of all goods-producing establishments.
- GDP measures the value of goods produced and of services performed. FAF measures the value of goods shipped.
- GDP counts only the value-added at each step in the production of a product. FAF captures the value of shipments of materials used to produce or manufacture a product, as well as the value of shipments of the finished product itself. This means that the value of the materials used to produce a particular product can contribute multiple times to the value.
Acronyms
AADT. Annual Average Daily Traffic
AAR. Association of American Railroads
AEO. Annual Energy Outlook
AMSA. American Moving and Storage Association
AOP. Association of Oil Pile Lines
API. American Petroleum Institute
ATA. American Trucking Association
BEA. Bureau of Economic Analysis
BTS. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BTS/OAI. Bureau of Transportation Statistics/Office of Airline Information
CBP. County Business Patterns
CDD. Construction and Demolition Debris
CFS. Commodity Flow Survey
COTS. Commercial off the Shelf
CV. Coefficient of Variation
DMV. Department of Motor Vehicles
EEZ. Exclusive Economic Zone
EIA. Energy Information Administration
EPA. Environmental Protection Agency
EWITS. Eastern Washington Intermodal Transportation Study
FAF. Freight Analysis Framework
FERC. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FGDC. Federal Geographic Data Committee
FHWA. Federal Highway Administration
FIPS. Federal Information Processing Standards
FMIP. Freight Model Improvement Program
GDP. Gross Domestic Product
GSP. Gross State Product
GVW. Gross Vehicle Weight
HERS. Highway Economics Requirement System
HPMS. Highway Performance Monitoring System
HS. Harmonized System
ICC. Interstate Commerce Commission
IPF. Iterative Proportional Fitting
ITDS. International Trade Data System
LNG. Liquefied Natural Gas
LPMS. Lock Performance Monitoring System
MARAD. Maritime Administration
MIO. Maritime Input Output
MPO. Metropolitan Planning Organization
MSA. Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area
MSW. Municipal Solid Waste
MTA. Metropolitan Transportation Authority
NAFTA. North American Free Trade Agreement
NAICS. North American Industry Classification System
NASS. National Agricultural Statistics Service
NDC. Navigation Data Center
NHPN. National Highway Planning Network
NHTSA. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
NFD. Network Flow Database
NMFS. National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NSDI. National Spatial Data Infrastructure
ODCM. Origin, Destination, Commodity, Mode
ORNL. Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PAD. Petroleum Administration for Defense
PCE. Passenger Car Equivalents
PIERS. Port Import Export Reporting Service
POC. Port of Clearance
POD. Port of Debarkation
POE. Port of Embarkation
RCRA. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
REIS. Regional Economic Information System
RO-RO Ship. Roll-on, Roll-off Ship
ROW. Rest of World
SCTG. Standard Classification of Transported Goods
SFTA. Strategic Freight Transportation Analysis
SIA. Spatial Interaction
SIC. Standard Industrial Classification
SQL. Standard Query Language
STB. Surface Transportation Board
STCC. Standard Transportation Commodity Code
TEU. Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit
TPE. Truck Payload Equivalents
UGPTI. Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
USACE. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USDA. U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDOE. U.S. Department of Energy
USDOT. U.S. Department of Transportation
VIUS. Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey
VTRIS. Vehicle Travel Information System
WCO. World Customs Organization
WCSC. Waterborne Commerce Statistical Center
WCUS. Waterborne Commerce Commodity Code
WTE. Waste to Energy
Data Sources
Carload Waybill Sample
http://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/industry/econ_waybill.html
Domestic Waterborne Commerce of the United States
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/wcsc.htm
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Annual Report
http://www.ferc.gov/about/strat-docs/annual_rep.asp
Fisheries of the United States Annual Report
International Waterborne Commerce of the United States
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/usforeign/index.htm
The import and export data are found at:
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/db/foreign/data/
Municipal Solid Waste- BioCycle and Beck/Chartwell Studies
http://www.jgpress.com/archives/_free/000089.html
and
http://www.jgpress.com/archives/_free/000138.html
Municipal Solid Waste-Franklin/EPA Study
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/pubs/msw2001.pdf
Regional Elevator Survey: Grain Transportation and Industry Trends for Great Plains Elevators
Transborder Surface Freight
http://www.bts.gov/transborder/
U.S. Air Freight Movements
U.S. Census Bureau-County Business Patterns 2002
http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html
U.S. Census Bureau-County Population Change
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/001758.html
U.S. Census Bureau-County to County Migration Flow 2002
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/tip_sheets/001397.html
U.S. Census of Agriculture 2002
http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/
U.S. Commodity Flow Survey 2002
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/cfs021200.pdf
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Statistics Annual Report
http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/agstats.htm
U.S. Department of Agriculture-Census of Agriculture 2002
http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/
U.S. Department of Energy-Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/contents.html
Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey
http://www.census.gov/econ/www/viusmain.html
Data Records
Freight Analysis Framework data derived from the three four-dimensional matrices is presented by a series of records in both comma-delimited and Access files. Value is expressed in millions of dollars, and tons are presented in thousands of short tons. Freight Flows are represented with the following structure:
Ø Domestic - Origin, Destination, Port, Commodity, Mode, Value, Tons.
Where Origin is 1 through 114 and Destination is 1 through 114, Port is domestic constant -1, Commodity is 1 through 43, and Mode is 1 through 7.
Example: 41, 29, -1, 16, 7, 16722, 103925
Origin is Region 41 (Remainder of Louisiana), Destination is Region 29 (Chicago, Illinois), Port is Domestic constant -1, Commodity 16 is Crude Petroleum, Mode 7 is pipeline in this case, Value is $16,722 million, and Tons are 103,925 thousand.
Ø Imports - Origin, Destination, Port of Embarkation, Commodity, Mode, Value, Tons.
Where Origin is 132 through 138, Destination is 1 through 114, Port of Embarkation is 1 through 131, Commodity is 1 through 43, and Mode is 1 through 7.
Ø Exports - Origin, Destination, Port of Debarkation, Commodity, Mode, Value, Tons.
Where Origin is 1 through 114, Destination is 132 through 138, Port of Debarkation is 1 through 131, Commodity is 1 through 43, and Mode is 1 through 7.
The FAF O-D matrix is provided as a series of four Access, and four identical Ascii files:
These files are:
CfsAllOd: CFS Expanded O-Ds
MxBdrOd: Transborder O-Ds
MxSeaOd: Waterborne International O-Ds
OosDmsOd: Out of Scope (to the CFS) Domestic O-Ds
Note: The "Port" column is dropped from the domestic Access files.
