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| Cargo Transportation in Delaware |
Understanding future freight activity is important for
matching infrastructure supply to demand and for
assessing potential investment and operational strategies.
To help decisionmakers identify areas in need of
capacity improvements, the U.S. Department of Transportation
developed the Freight Analysis Framework
(FAF), a comprehensive national data and analysis tool,
including county-to-county freight flows for the truck,
rail, water, and air modes. FAF also forecasts freight
activity in 2010 and 2020 for each of these modes.
Information about the methodology used in developing
FAF is available on the Office of Freight Managementand Operations’. The U.S. freight transportation network moves a
staggering volume of goods each year. Over 15 billion
tons of goods, worth over $9 trillion, were moved in
1998. The movement of bulk goods, such as grains,
coal, and ores, still comprises a large share of the tonnage
moved on the U.S. freight network. However,
lighter and more valuable goods, such as computers
and office equipment, now make up an increasing proportion
of what is moved. FAF estimates that trucks
carried about 71 percent of the total tonnage and
80 percent of the total value of U.S. shipments in
1998. By 2020, the U.S. transportation system is
expected to handle about 23 billion tons of cargo valued
at nearly $30 trillion.
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Trucks moved the
largest percentage of the tonnage and value of shipments. Truck traffic is expected to grow throughout the
state over the next 20 years. Much of the growth will
occur in urban areas and on the Interstate highway
system. Truck traffic moving to and
from Delaware accounted for 6 percent of the average
annual daily truck traffic (AADTT) on the FAF road
network. Approximately 2 percent of truck traffic
involved in-state shipments, and 24 percent involved
trucks traveling across the state to other markets.
About 68 percent of the AADTT were not identified
with a route-specific origin or destination.
The top commodities by weight are crude petroleum
or natural gas and petroleum or coal products. By
value, the top commodities are transportation equipment
and secondary traffic. Secondary traffic is
defined as freight flows to and from distribution centers
or through intermodal facilities. No commodities
are assigned to this intermediate step in the transportation
process.
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The database provides detailed information of the Nation’s truck population. Collected
from an approximately 154,000 truck sample,
individual state and United States estimates
are produced. Physical characteristics include
model year, body type, empty weight, truck type, axle arrangement, length, and engine
size. Operational characteristics include major
use, products carried, annual and lifetime
miles, area of operation, miles per gallon,
operator classification, and hazardous
materials transported.