The statistics documenting rail movements for 1980 were derived from a total of 179,828 Bills of Lading--resulting in 205,934 Carloads. Section II provides a complete 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 system. The commodity code structure is detailed in section IV and the geographical territories are defined in section V.
Carload Waybill Statistics Based on Sample of Waybills for Terminations in the Year 1980. Territorial Distribution Traffic and Revenue by Commodity Classes
1982
214 pages
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English