Hazardous materials highlights : 2007 Commodity Flow Survey /
Hazardous materials movement through the Nation's transportation network in 2007 remained relatively unchanged from 2002 measures, according to data from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), released in 2010. The estimated 2.2 billion tons of hazardous materials carried by all modes of transpo...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
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[Washington, District of Columbia] :
U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics,
2011.
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| Series: | Special report (United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics) ;
SR-026. |
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| Online Access: | https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo53948 |
| Summary: | Hazardous materials movement through the Nation's transportation network in 2007 remained relatively unchanged from 2002 measures, according to data from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS), released in 2010. The estimated 2.2 billion tons of hazardous materials carried by all modes of transportation is about the same as the estimated tonnage from the prior CFS in 2002. However, the value of those shipments more than doubled, from 660 billion to 1,448 billion dollars, driven primarily by the increase in the price of refined petroleum products and other basic commodities. Slightly more than half (54 percent) of hazardous material tonnage is moved via trucks over the Nation's highways. Pipeline is the next most used carrier of hazardous materials, handling 28 percent of the tonnage, while the other modes each accounted for 7 percent or less of total hazardous material tonnage. |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on March 4, 2011). "January 2011." Text document in PDF format. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (6 pages) : color map. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |