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 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, 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.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1501594
• Record URL:
  http://www.bts.gov/publications/special_reports_and_issue_briefs/special_report/2011_01_26/pdf/entire.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/6465
• Corporate Authors:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Duych, Ron
  • Ford, Chester
  • Sanjani, Hossain
• Publication Date: 2011-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: Special Report
• Features: Maps; Tables;
• Pagination: 6p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commodity flow; Freight traffic; Hazardous materials; Highways; Pipelines
• Identifier Terms: 2007 Commodity Flow Survey
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01337269
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: SR-026
• Files: NTL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 19 2011 7:17AM