The statistics documenting rail movements tabulated herein for 1984 were derived from a total of 322,267 shipment documents representing an estimated 21,439,462 carloads. Section II provides a description of the sample including a list of the railroads which submitted data. An integral part of the waybill data shows such statistics as car-miles and ton-miles on a commodity basis between major geographical areas. Section III describes the mileage calculation procedure which is part of the waybill processing. The commodity code structure is detailed in section IV and the geographical territories are defined in section V. The principal data tables in the publication are explained in section VI and are contained in the appendices.
Carload Waybill Statistics, 1984: Territorial Distribution Traffic and Revenue by Commodity Classes
1986
256 pages
Report
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Englisch