Table 2-12. 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.
| Mode | Canada | France | Germany | Italy | Japan | United Kingdom |
United States |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air | 0.14 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.11 | 0.09 | 0.01 | 0.29 |
| Water | 9.2 | 5.2 | 17.6 | 13.0 | 58.0 | 23.6 | 20.5 |
| Oil pipeline | 23.9 | 9.0 | 4.1 | 4.7 | NA | 5.5 | 16.6 |
| Rail | 50.5 | 20.7 | 19.6 | 8.7 | 3.1 | 6.3 | 36.3 |
| Road | 16.3 | 65.0 | 58.6 | 73.5 | 38.1 | 64.7 | 26.4 |
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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