Table 2-15. Domestic Freight Activity by Transportation Mode for Selected Countries: 2003
(Percent Share of Total)
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.
| Mode | Canada | France | Germany | Italy | Japan | United Kingdom |
United States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water | 15.0 | 26.7 | 13.1 | 317.3 | 341.3 | 326.3 | 14.9 |
| Oil pipeline | 35.8 | 8.0 | 3.5 | 4.1 | NA | 3.8 | 14.5 |
| Rail | 37.5 | 16.9 | 17.7 | 9.8 | 4.0 | 7.5 | 39.5 |
| Road | 21.8 | 68.4 | 65.7 | 68.9 | 354.6 | 62.4 | 31.3 |
Key: NA = not available.
1Based on data from 2001.
2Based on data from 2000.
3Based on data from 2002.
Sources: United States: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Statistics 2005, (Washingon, DC: 2005).
All other countries: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), OECD in Figures — 2005 Edition (Paris: 2005).
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