The 2017 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Exports Series.

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Hazardous Materials Series.

Key Table Information.Table Title.Geographic Area Series: Shipment Characteristics by Origin Geography by Destination Geography by Commodity by Mode: 2022.Table ID.CFSAREA2022.CF2200A17.Survey/Program.Economic Surveys.Year.2022.Dataset.ECNSVY Commodity Flow Survey Geographic Area Series.Source.U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Surveys, Commodity Flow Survey.Release Date.2025-06-26.Release Schedule.The CFS collects data every five years, for years ending in 2 and 7.The data in this file was released in June 2025..Dataset Universe.The dataset universe consists of all in-scope shipments originating from establishments in operation for at least some part of 2022, located in one of the 50 U.S. states or the District of Columbia, having paid employees, and classified in selected NAICS industries.For more information on shipments that are in-scope, see Commodity Flow Survey Questionnaires..Sponsor.Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.Methodology.Data Items and Other Identifying Records.Value ($ million)Weight (thousand tons)Average distance (GCD) per shipment (miles)Coefficient of variation for all above data itemsEstimates on this table are given by origin geography, destination geography, commodity, and domestic mode of shipment.Definitions can be found by clicking on the column header in the table or by accessing the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Unit(s) of Observation.The reporting units for the CFS are establishments. An establishment is generally a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed..Geography Coverage.The data are shown for the U.S., region, division, state, and CFS Area levels.For information about CFS geographies, see Commodity Flow Survey Geographies..Sampling.The CFS selects a sample using a three-stage design. The first stage selects a sample of about 165 thousand establishments stratified by industry and geography, the second stage randomly assigns a reporting week in each quarter for the establishments to report shipments, and the third stage is a systematic sample of shipments in the selected weeks.For more information about the sample design, see the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Confidentiality.The Census Bureau has reviewed the published CFS tables to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data (Project No. 7504831, Disclosure Review Board [DRB] Approval Number: CBDRB-FY25-0142).The primary method of disclosure avoidance is noise infusion. Under this method, the tabulation weight for each shipment is perturbed prior to tabulation by applying a random noise multiplier. More information on disclosure avoidance is available in the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Technical Documentation/Methodology.For detailed information about the methods used to collect data and produce statistics, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology.For more information about survey questionnaires, CFS Area definitions, and commodity code definitions, see 2022 CFS Technical Documentation..Weights.Each shipment is assigned a single tabulation weight used when tabulating quantitative values. The tabulation weight is the product of multiple component weights, including weights to reflect the probability of selection in each stage of sampling, weights to represent quarter and establishment non-response, weights to post-stratify to 2022 Economic Census data, and a weight to represent the noise infusion used for disclosure avoidance.For more information about tabulation weights, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Table Information.FTP Download.https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cfs/data/2022/.API Information.Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) data are housed in the Census Bureau Application Programming Interface (API)..Symbols.S - Estimate does not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability, poor response quality, or other concerns about the estimate quality. Unpublished estimates derived from this table by subtraction are subject to these same limitations and should not be attributed to the U.S. Census Bureau. For a description of publication standards and the total quantity response rate, see link to program methodology page.Z - Rounds to zeroX - Not applicableN - Not available or not comparableFor a complete list of symbols, see Economic Census Data Dictionary..Data-Specific Notes.Cell notes:n: Truck as a single mode in 2022 includes the new mode of customer pick-up, as well as for-hire truck and company-owned truck. In 2017, truck as a single mode included only shipments that were made by for-hire truck or company-owned truck.o: Customer pick-up represents a shipment reported as picked up by the customer. Customer pick-up is a new mode for the 2022 CFS. Estimates did not exist for the 2017 CFS and before. See methodology for more information.x: Other mode (single and multimode) represents a shipment with a valid transportation m...

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is the primary source of national and state-level data on domestic freight shipments by American establishments in mining, manufacturing, wholesale, auxiliaries, and selected retail industries. Data are provided on the types, origins and destinations, values, weights, modes of transport, distance shipped, and ton-miles of commodities shipped. The CFS is a shipper-based survey and is conducted every five years as part of the Economic Census. It provides a modal picture of national freight flows, and represents the only publicly available source of commodity flow data for the highway mode. The CFS was conducted in 1993, 1997, 2002, 2007 and most recently in 2012.

The 2017 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Exports Series.

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Hazardous Materials Series.

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Geographic Area Series.

The Commodity Flow Survey provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of commodities from manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and selected retail and services establishments. It is undertaken through a partnership between the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Research and Innovative Technology Administration.

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Geographic Area Series.

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Hazardous Materials Series.

Key Table Information.Table Title.Hazardous Materials Series: HazMat Shipment Characteristics by NAICS by Mode for the United States: 2022.Table ID.CFSHAZMAT2022.CF2200H16.Survey/Program.Economic Surveys.Year.2022.Dataset.ECNSVY Commodity Flow Survey Hazardous Materials Series.Source.U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Surveys, Commodity Flow Survey.Release Date.2025-06-26.Release Schedule.The CFS collects data every five years, for years ending in 2 and 7.The data in this file was released in June 2025..Dataset Universe.The dataset universe consists of all in-scope hazardous material shipments originating from establishments in operation for at least some part of 2022, located in one of the 50 U.S. states or the District of Columbia, having paid employees, and classified in selected NAICS industries.For more information on shipments that are in-scope, see Commodity Flow Survey Questionnaires..Sponsor.Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.Methodology.Data Items and Other Identifying Records.Value ($ million)Weight (thousand tons)Average distance (GCD) per shipment (miles)Coefficient of variation for all above data itemsEstimates on this table are given by NAICS, and by domestic mode of shipment.Definitions can be found by clicking on the column header in the table or by accessing the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Unit(s) of Observation.The reporting units for the CFS are establishments. An establishment is generally a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed..Geography Coverage.The data are shown for the U.S. only.For information about CFS geographies, see Commodity Flow Survey Geographies..Industry Coverage.For the list of industries in-scope to CFS, see the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology.For information about NAICS, see North American Industry Classification System..Sampling.The CFS selects a sample using a three-stage design. The first stage selects a sample of about 165 thousand establishments stratified by industry and geography, the second stage randomly assigns a reporting week in each quarter for the establishments to report shipments, and the third stage is a systematic sample of shipments in the selected weeks.For more information about the sample design, see the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Confidentiality.The Census Bureau has reviewed the published CFS tables to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data (Project No. 7504831, Disclosure Review Board [DRB] Approval Number: CBDRB-FY25-0142).The primary method of disclosure avoidance is noise infusion. Under this method, the tabulation weight for each shipment is perturbed prior to tabulation by applying a random noise multiplier. More information on disclosure avoidance is available in the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Technical Documentation/Methodology.For detailed information about the methods used to collect data and produce statistics, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology.For more information about survey questionnaires, CFS Area definitions, and commodity code definitions, see 2022 CFS Technical Documentation..Weights.Each shipment is assigned a single tabulation weight used when tabulating quantitative values. The tabulation weight is the product of multiple component weights, including weights to reflect the probability of selection in each stage of sampling, weights to represent quarter and establishment non-response, weights to post-stratify to 2022 Economic Census data, and a weight to represent the noise infusion used for disclosure avoidance.For more information about tabulation weights, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Table Information.FTP Download.https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cfs/data/2022/.API Information.Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) data are housed in the Census Bureau Application Programming Interface (API)..Symbols.S - Estimate does not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability, poor response quality, or other concerns about the estimate quality. Unpublished estimates derived from this table by subtraction are subject to these same limitations and should not be attributed to the U.S. Census Bureau. For a description of publication standards and the total quantity response rate, see link to program methodology page.Z - Rounds to zeroX - Not applicableN - Not available or not comparableFor a complete list of symbols, see Economic Census Data Dictionary..Data-Specific Notes.Cell notes:CF1: For tabulation and publication purposes, NAICS 484 is grouped with NAICS 4931.CF2: For tabulation and publication purposes, NAICS 51223 is grouped with NAICS 5111.n: Truck as a single mode in 2022 includes the new mode of customer pick-up, as well as for-hire truck and company-owned truck. In 2017, truck as a single mode included only shipments that were made by for-hire truck or company-owned truck.o: Customer pick-up represents...

Key Table Information.Table Title.Temperature Control Series: Shipment Characteristics of Temperature Controlled Shipments by NAICS by Mode for the United States: 2022.Table ID.CFSTEMP2022.CF2200TC09.Survey/Program.Economic Surveys.Year.2022.Dataset.ECNSVY Commodity Flow Survey Temperature Control Series.Source.U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Surveys, Commodity Flow Survey.Release Date.2025-06-26.Release Schedule.The CFS collects data every five years, for years ending in 2 and 7.The data in this file was released in June 2025..Dataset Universe.The dataset universe consists of all in-scope temperature controlled shipments originating from establishments in operation for at least some part of 2022, located in one of the 50 U.S. states or the District of Columbia, having paid employees, and classified in selected NAICS industries.For more information on shipments that are in-scope, see Commodity Flow Survey Questionnaires..Sponsor.Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.Methodology.Data Items and Other Identifying Records.Value ($ million)Weight (thousand tons)Average distance (GCD) per shipment (miles)Coefficient of variation for all above data itemsEstimates on this table are given by NAICS, and domestic mode of shipment.Definitions can be found by clicking on the column header in the table or by accessing the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Unit(s) of Observation.The reporting units for the CFS are establishments. An establishment is generally a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed..Geography Coverage.The data are shown for the U.S. only.For information about CFS geographies, see Commodity Flow Survey Geographies..Industry Coverage.For the list of industries in-scope to CFS, see the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology.For information about NAICS, see North American Industry Classification System..Sampling.The CFS selects a sample using a three-stage design. The first stage selects a sample of about 165 thousand establishments stratified by industry and geography, the second stage randomly assigns a reporting week in each quarter for the establishments to report shipments, and the third stage is a systematic sample of shipments in the selected weeks.For more information about the sample design, see the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Confidentiality.The Census Bureau has reviewed the published CFS tables to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data (Project No. 7504831, Disclosure Review Board [DRB] Approval Number: CBDRB-FY25-0142).The primary method of disclosure avoidance is noise infusion. Under this method, the tabulation weight for each shipment is perturbed prior to tabulation by applying a random noise multiplier. More information on disclosure avoidance is available in the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Technical Documentation/Methodology.For detailed information about the methods used to collect data and produce statistics, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology.For more information about survey questionnaires, CFS Area definitions, and commodity code definitions, see 2022 CFS Technical Documentation..Weights.Each shipment is assigned a single tabulation weight used when tabulating quantitative values. The tabulation weight is the product of multiple component weights, including weights to reflect the probability of selection in each stage of sampling, weights to represent quarter and establishment non-response, weights to post-stratify to 2022 Economic Census data, and a weight to represent the noise infusion used for disclosure avoidance.For more information about tabulation weights, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Table Information.FTP Download.https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cfs/data/2022/.API Information.Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) data are housed in the Census Bureau Application Programming Interface (API)..Symbols.S - Estimate does not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability, poor response quality, or other concerns about the estimate quality. Unpublished estimates derived from this table by subtraction are subject to these same limitations and should not be attributed to the U.S. Census Bureau. For a description of publication standards and the total quantity response rate, see link to program methodology page.Z - Rounds to zeroX - Not applicableN - Not available or not comparableFor a complete list of symbols, see Economic Census Data Dictionary..Data-Specific Notes.Cell notes:CF1: For tabulation and publication purposes, NAICS 484 is grouped with NAICS 4931.CF2: For tabulation and publication purposes, NAICS 51223 is grouped with NAICS 5111.n: Truck as a single mode in 2022 includes the new mode of customer pick-up, as well as for-hire truck and company-owned truck. In 2017, truck as a single mode included only shipments that were made by for-hire truck or company-owned truck.o...

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Geographic Area Series.

Context

The coronavirus has presented unique challenges to supply chains worldwide. As cities and states rise to meet challenges its important to know where critical items are produced and to try and understand the impact of these closures on the US supply chain. This can be especially important at the moment with regards to manufacturing capabilities related to medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

Content

"**The survey is the primary source of national and state-level data on domestic freight shipments by establishments in mining, manufacturing, wholesale, auxiliaries, and selected retail and services trade industries located in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. **The survey produces estimates on the type, origin and destination, value, weight, modes of transportation, distance shipped, and ton-miles of commodities shipped. The CFS is conducted every five years as part of the Economic Census. It provides a modal picture of national freight flows, and represents the only publicly available source of commodity flow data for the highway mode. The CFS was conducted in 1993, 1997, 2002, 2007 and most recently in 2012."

"To protect the confidentiality of CFS respondents, the CFS uses noise-infusion when producing estimates of shipment value and shipment weight. Details relating to this disclosure avoidance technique may be found on the CFS website at www.census.gov/econ/cfs/2012_methodology.html along with information on the survey coverage, sampling, mileage calculation, and estimation methodologies."

Read more: https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2012/econ/cfs/2012-pums-files.html

Acknowledgements

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is a joint effort by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce. Special thanks to James Hinckley and Christian Moscardi

The 2012 CFS PUM file is an experimental data product and the Census Bureau solicits user feedback to continue to enhance its usefulness. If you have any questions or feedback you would like to provide us, please contact the Commodity Flow Branch staff by e-mail at ERD.CFS@census.gov or by phone at (301) 763-2108.

Inspiration

Data could be used to evaluate economic impacts from commodity flow to and from cities under quarantine orders. This data could also be used to proxy the local production capacities of medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and also the areas that import these items.

Key Table Information.Table Title.Exports Series: Shipment Characteristics by Export Mode by Domestic Mode Share: 2022.Table ID.CFSEXPORT2022.CF2200E8.Survey/Program.Economic Surveys.Year.2022.Dataset.ECNSVY Commodity Flow Survey Exports Series.Source.U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Surveys, Commodity Flow Survey.Release Date.2025-06-26.Release Schedule.The CFS collects data every five years, for years ending in 2 and 7.The data in this file was released in June 2025..Dataset Universe.The dataset universe consists of all in-scope export shipments originating from establishments in operation for at least some part of 2022, located in one of the 50 U.S. states or the District of Columbia, having paid employees, and classified in selected NAICS industries.For more information on shipments that are in-scope, see Commodity Flow Survey Questionnaires..Sponsor.Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.Methodology.Data Items and Other Identifying Records.Value ($ million)Weight (thousand tons)Coefficient of variation for all above data itemsEstimates on this table are given by export mode, and domestic mode of shipment.Definitions can be found by clicking on the column header in the table or by accessing the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Unit(s) of Observation.The reporting units for the CFS are establishments. An establishment is generally a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed..Geography Coverage.The data are shown for the U.S. only.For information about CFS geographies, see Commodity Flow Survey Geographies..Sampling.The CFS selects a sample using a three-stage design. The first stage selects a sample of about 165 thousand establishments stratified by industry and geography, the second stage randomly assigns a reporting week in each quarter for the establishments to report shipments, and the third stage is a systematic sample of shipments in the selected weeks.For more information about the sample design, see the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Confidentiality.The Census Bureau has reviewed the published CFS tables to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data (Project No. 7504831, Disclosure Review Board [DRB] Approval Number: CBDRB-FY25-0142).The primary method of disclosure avoidance is noise infusion. Under this method, the tabulation weight for each shipment is perturbed prior to tabulation by applying a random noise multiplier. More information on disclosure avoidance is available in the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Technical Documentation/Methodology.For detailed information about the methods used to collect data and produce statistics, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology.For more information about survey questionnaires, CFS Area definitions, and commodity code definitions, see 2022 CFS Technical Documentation..Weights.Each shipment is assigned a single tabulation weight used when tabulating quantitative values. The tabulation weight is the product of multiple component weights, including weights to reflect the probability of selection in each stage of sampling, weights to represent quarter and establishment non-response, weights to post-stratify to 2022 Economic Census data, and a weight to represent the noise infusion used for disclosure avoidance.For more information about tabulation weights, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Table Information.FTP Download.https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cfs/data/2022/.API Information.Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) data are housed in the Census Bureau Application Programming Interface (API)..Symbols.S - Estimate does not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability, poor response quality, or other concerns about the estimate quality. Unpublished estimates derived from this table by subtraction are subject to these same limitations and should not be attributed to the U.S. Census Bureau. For a description of publication standards and the total quantity response rate, see link to program methodology page.Z - Rounds to zeroX - Not applicableN - Not available or not comparableFor a complete list of symbols, see Economic Census Data Dictionary..Data-Specific Notes.Cell notes:n: Truck as a single mode in 2022 includes the new mode of customer pick-up, as well as for-hire truck and company-owned truck. In 2017, truck as a single mode included only shipments that were made by for-hire truck or company-owned truck.o: Customer pick-up represents a shipment reported as picked up by the customer. Customer pick-up is a new mode for the 2022 CFS. Estimates did not exist for the 2017 CFS and before. See methodology for more information.x: Other mode (single and multimode) represents a shipment with a valid transportation mode other than the most common designations. See methodology for more information on other modes.z: Unknown mode represents a shipment reported as unknown mode...

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is undertaken through a partnership between the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, and the Research and Innovation Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation. This survey produces data on the movement of goods in the United States. It provides information on commodities shipped, their value, weight, and mode of transportation, as well as the origin and destination of shipments of manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and select retail and services establishments. The data from the CFS are used by public policy analysts and for transportation planning and decision making to access the demand for transportation facilities and services, energy use, and safety risk and environmental concerns. This dataset provides data for the Temperature Series.

This is a public dataset for the Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics. The public database consists of four tables. One of the tables is a spatial table: INTERMODAL_FACILITY. The three other tables consist of attribute data for the database: INTERMODAL_CARGO, INTERMODAL_COMMODITY and INTERMODAL_DIRECTIONALITY. This database was based on the requirements from the Commodity Flow Survey and with the different modes of DOT, supervised by RITA/BTS. The database will extend its design to support all of the modes within the DOT and in reference to modes involved with Intermodal transfer.

A Description of data fields, data definitions, and some context on changes between the different Commodity Flow Surveys

The Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) integrates data from a variety of sources to create a comprehensive picture of freight movement among states and major metropolitan areas by all modes of transportation. With data from the 2007 Commodity Flow Survey and additional sources, FAF version 3 (FAF3) provides estimates for tonnage, value, and domestic ton-miles by region of origin and destination, commodity type, and mode for 2007, the most recent year, and forecasts through 2040. Also included are state-to-state flows for these years plus 1997 and 2002, summary statistics, and flows by truck assigned to the highway network for 2007 and 2040.

Key Table Information.Table Title.Temperature Control Series: Shipment Characteristics of Temperature Controlled Shipments by Mode for the United States: 2022 and 2017.Table ID.CFSTEMP2022.CF2200TC01.Survey/Program.Economic Surveys.Year.2022.Dataset.ECNSVY Commodity Flow Survey Temperature Control Series.Source.U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Surveys, Commodity Flow Survey.Release Date.2025-06-26.Release Schedule.The CFS collects data every five years, for years ending in 2 and 7.The data in this file was released in June 2025..Dataset Universe.The dataset universe consists of all in-scope temperature controlled shipments originating from establishments in operation for at least some part of 2022, located in one of the 50 U.S. states or the District of Columbia, having paid employees, and classified in selected NAICS industries.For more information on shipments that are in-scope, see Commodity Flow Survey Questionnaires..Sponsor.Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation.Methodology.Data Items and Other Identifying Records.Value ($ million)Weight (thousand tons)Average distance (GCD) per shipment (miles)Percent change from 2017 and coefficient of variation or standard error for all above data itemsEstimates on this table are given by domestic mode of shipment.Definitions can be found by clicking on the column header in the table or by accessing the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Unit(s) of Observation.The reporting units for the CFS are establishments. An establishment is generally a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed..Geography Coverage.The data are shown for the U.S. only.For information about CFS geographies, see Commodity Flow Survey Geographies..Sampling.The CFS selects a sample using a three-stage design. The first stage selects a sample of about 165 thousand establishments stratified by industry and geography, the second stage randomly assigns a reporting week in each quarter for the establishments to report shipments, and the third stage is a systematic sample of shipments in the selected weeks.For more information about the sample design, see the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Confidentiality.The Census Bureau has reviewed the published CFS tables to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data (Project No. 7504831, Disclosure Review Board [DRB] Approval Number: CBDRB-FY25-0142).The primary method of disclosure avoidance is noise infusion. Under this method, the tabulation weight for each shipment is perturbed prior to tabulation by applying a random noise multiplier. More information on disclosure avoidance is available in the Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Technical Documentation/Methodology.For detailed information about the methods used to collect data and produce statistics, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology.For more information about survey questionnaires, CFS Area definitions, and commodity code definitions, see 2022 CFS Technical Documentation..Weights.Each shipment is assigned a single tabulation weight used when tabulating quantitative values. The tabulation weight is the product of multiple component weights, including weights to reflect the probability of selection in each stage of sampling, weights to represent quarter and establishment non-response, weights to post-stratify to 2022 Economic Census data, and a weight to represent the noise infusion used for disclosure avoidance.For more information about tabulation weights, see Commodity Flow Survey Methodology..Table Information.FTP Download.https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cfs/data/2022/.API Information.Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) data are housed in the Census Bureau Application Programming Interface (API)..Symbols.S - Estimate does not meet publication standards because of high sampling variability, poor response quality, or other concerns about the estimate quality. Unpublished estimates derived from this table by subtraction are subject to these same limitations and should not be attributed to the U.S. Census Bureau. For a description of publication standards and the total quantity response rate, see link to program methodology page.Z - Rounds to zeroX - Not applicableN - Not available or not comparableFor a complete list of symbols, see Economic Census Data Dictionary..Data-Specific Notes.Cell notes:n: Truck as a single mode in 2022 includes the new mode of customer pick-up, as well as for-hire truck and company-owned truck. In 2017, truck as a single mode included only shipments that were made by for-hire truck or company-owned truck.o: Customer pick-up represents a shipment reported as picked up by the customer. Customer pick-up is a new mode for the 2022 CFS. Estimates did not exist for the 2017 CFS and before. See methodology for more information.x: Other mode (single and multimode) represents a shipment with a valid transportation mode other...