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Highway
Trucks
Nonhighway
Waterborne Commerce
Table 2.13
Intercity Freight Movement and Energy Use in the
United States, 1998
Vehicles - 0.4% of total 2-axle, 4-tire trucks (as reported by DOT, FHWA in Highway Statistics
1998, Table VM-1) and 29% of total other trucks were engaged in intercity freight
movement. These percentages were derived by ORNL from the 1997 VIUS Micro Data
File on CD. Intercity freight trucks were defined as any truck whose:
- greatest share of miles were traveled more than 50 miles away from the
vehicle’s home base; and
- principal use was not personal or passenger transportation; and
- body type was not pickup, minivan, or utility vehicle.
Vmt - 0.7% of total vehicle miles traveled by 2-axle, 4-tire trucks (as reported by DOT, FHWA
in Highway Statistics 1998, Table VM-1) and 65.2% of total vehicle miles traveled by
other trucks were used in intercity freight movement. These percentages were derived by
ORNL from the 1997 VIUS Micro Data File on CD.
Ton Miles, Tons Shipped and Average Length of Haul - Eno Transportation Foundation,
Transportation in America 1999, Seventeenth Edition, Lansdowne, VA, 2000, pp. 44,46,
71.
Energy Intensity - Energy use divided by ton-miles.
Energy Use - 1.0% of total fuel consumption by 2-axle, 4-tire trucks (as reported by DOT,
FHWA in Highway Statistics 1998, Table VM-1) and 71.3% of total other truck fuel
consumption were used in intercity freight movement. These percentages were derived
by ORNL from the 1997 VIUS Micro Data File on CD.
Vehicles - U.S. Department of the Army, Army Corps of Engineers, “Summary of U.S. Flag
Passenger and Cargo Vessels, 1998,” New Orleans, LA, 2000.
Ton Miles, Tons Shipped, and Average Length of Haul - U.S. Department of the Army, Corps
of Engineers, Waterborne Commerce of the United States, Calendar Year 1998, Part 5:
National Summaries, New Orleans, LA, 2000, pp. l-6, l-7.
Energy Intensity - Energy use divided by ton miles.
Energy Use - DOE, EIA, Fuel Oil and Kerosene Sales 1998 Table 23. Adjusted sales of
distillate and residual fuel oil for vessel bunkering. (This may include some amounts of
bunker fuels used for recreational purposes.)
Domestic freight energy use was calculated as:
Distillate fuel - 77.5% domestic
Residual fuel - 9.3% domestic.
Percentages were derived from the DOC, U.S. Foreign Trade, Bunker Fuels, “Oil and
Coal Laden in the U.S. on Vessels Engaged in Foreign Trade,” 1988.
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