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Table 2-11: Percent Share of Total Domestic Freight Activity by Mode: 1996

Despite the enormous amount of freight being moved by truck in the United States, the United States moves a much smaller share of its goods domestically by truck and a much greater share of goods by rail than countries in western Europe and Japan.

Table in Excel format

Mode Canada France Germany Italy Japan United
Kingdom
United
States
Air0.140.080.010.110.090.010.29
Water9.25.217.613.058.023.620.5
Oil pipeline23.99.04.14.7NA5.516.6
Rail50.520.719.68.73.16.336.3
Road16.365.058.673.538.164.726.4

Key: NA = not available.

Source: U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, G-7 Countries: Transportation Highlights, BTS99-01 (Washingon, DC: 1999), available at www.bts.gov as of August 26, 2004.

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