2002 FAF Commodity Origin-Destination Database Dictionary

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Report Number 6 (R6)

Table of Contents

Data Descriptions
FAF Regions
Gateways
Foreign Trade Regions
SCTG - Commodity Code
Transportation Modes
Data Definitions
Acronyms
Data Sources
Data Records

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2002 FAF Commodity Origin-Destination Database Dictionary

Data Descriptions

The 2002 FAF includes 3 four-dimensional matrices (for tons and value) in which the four dimensions are origin, destination, commodity, and mode -- referred to as the Freight Flow Database: Origins and destinations consist of 114 regions as defined and used in the 2002 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) plus 17 additional international gateways and 7 international regions. Commodities are defined at the 2-digit SCTG (Standard Classification of Transported Goods) level. The complete FAF 2002 U.S. Commodity Flows Matrix contains 138 x 138 origin-to-destination (O-D) region shipments, broken down by 43 commodity classes and by 7 major mode/mode combinations.

Figure 1 shows the 131 FAF geographic regions that are internal to the United States.

Metropolitan areas shown in green, gateways shown in purple. Not shown: Alaska (3), Honolulu (26), Hawaii (27), and the Anchorage Gateway (115)

FAF Regions

ID	Zone
1	Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL CSA
2	Remainder of Alabama
3	Alaska
4	Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ MeSA
5	Tucson, AZ MeSA
6	Remainder of Arizona
7	Arkansas
8	Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA CSA
9	San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA MeSA
10	Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Truckee, CA-NV CSA (CA Part)
11	San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA
12	Remainder of California
13	Denver-Aurora-Boulder, CO CSA
14	Remainder of Colorado
15	New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA (CT Part)
16	Remainder of Connecticut
17	Delaware
18	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MeSA (DC Part)
19	Jacksonville, FL MeSA
20	Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Miami Beach, FL MeSA
21	Orlando-The Villages, FL CSA
22	Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MeSA
23	Remainder of Florida
24	Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL CSA (GA Part)
25	Remainder of Georgia
26	Honolulu, HI MeSA
27	Remainder of Hawaii
28	Idaho
29	Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA (IL Part)
30	St Louis, MO-IL MeSA (IL Part)
31	Remainder of Illinois
32	Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI CSA (IN Part)
33	Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN CSA
34	Remainder of Indiana
35	Iowa
36	Kansas City, MO-KS MeSA (KS Part)
37	Remainder of Kansas
38	Louisville-Elizabethtown-Scottsburg, KY-IN CSA (KY Part)
39	Remainder of Kentucky
40	New Orleans-Metairie-Bogalusa, LA CSA
41	Remainder of Louisiana
42	Maine
43	Baltimore-Towson, MD MeSA
44	Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MeSA (MD Part)
45	Remainder of Maryland
46	Boston-Worcester-Manchester, MA-NH CSA (MA Part)
47	Remainder of Massachusetts
48	Detroit-Warren-Flint, MI CSA
49	Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Holland, MI CSA
50	Remainder of Michigan
51	Minneapolis-St Paul-St Cloud, MN-WI CSA (MN Part)
52	Remainder of Minnesota
53	Mississippi
54	Kansas City, MO-KS MeSA (MO Part)
55	St Louis-St Charles-Farmington, MO-IL CSA (MO Part)
56	Remainder of Missouri
57	Montana
58	Nebraska
59	Las Vegas-Paradise-Pahrump, NV CSA
60	Remainder of Nevada
61	New Hampshire
62	New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA (NJ Part)
63	Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA (NJ Part)
64	Remainder of New Jersey
65	New Mexico
66	Albany-Schenectady-Amsterdam, NY CSA
67	Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Tonawanda, NY MeSA
68	New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA (NY Part)
69	Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY CSA
70	Remainder of New York
71	Charlotte-Gastonia-Salisbury, NC-SC CSA (NC Part)
72	Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC CSA
73	Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC CSA
74	Remainder of North Carolina
75	North Dakota
76	Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN CSA (OH Part)
77	Cleveland-Akron-Elyria, OH CSA
78	Columbus-Marion-Chillicothe, OH CSA
79	Dayton-Springfield-Greenville, OH CSA
80	Remainder of Ohio
81	Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK CSA
82	Tulsa-Bartlesville, OK CSA
83	Remainder of Oklahoma
84	Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA MeSA (OR Part)
85	Remainder of Oregon
86	Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA (PA Part)
87	Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA CSA
88	Remainder of Pennsylvania
89	Rhode Island
90	Greenville-Anderson-Seneca, SC CSA
91	Spartanburg-Gaffney-Union, SC CSA
92	Remainder of South Carolina
93	South Dakota
94	Memphis, TN-MS-AR MeSA (TN Part)
95	Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Columbia, TN CSA
96	Remainder of Tennessee
97	Austin-Round Rock, TX MeSA
98	Dallas-Fort Worth, TX CSA
99	Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX CSA
100	San Antonio, TX MeSA
101	Remainder of Texas
102	Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield, UT CSA
103	Remainder of Utah
104	Vermont
105	Richmond, VA MeSA
106	Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MeSA (VA Part)
107	Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV CSA (VA Part)
108	Remainder of Virginia
109	Seattle-Tacoma-Olympia, WA CSA
110	Remainder of Washington
111	West Virginia
112	Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI CSA
113	Remainder of Wisconsin
114	Wyoming

Gateways

ID	Zone
115	Anchorage, AK
116	Blaine, WA
117	International Falls, MN
118	Alexandria Bay, NY
119	Champlain/Rouses Point, NY
120	Portland, ME
121	Charleston, SC
122	Savannah,GA
123	Mobile, AL
124	Baton Rouge, LA
125	Morgan City, LA
126	Lake Charles, LA
127	Beaumont, TX
128	Corpus Christi, TX
129	Brownsville/Hidalgo, TX
130	Laredo, TX
131	ElPaso, TX

Foreign Trade Regions

ID	Zone
132	Canada
133	Mexico
134	Latin and South America
135	Asia
136	Europe
137	Rest of World
138	Middle East

SCTG - Commodity Code

Code	Commodity Class
01	Live animals and live fish
02	Cereal grains
03	Other agricultural products
04	Animal feed and products of animal origin, not elsewhere classified (n.e.c.)
05	Meat, fish, seafood, and their preparations
06	Milled grain products and preparations, and bakery products
07	Other prepared foodstuffs and fats and oils
08	Alcoholic beverages
09	Tobacco products
10	Monumental or building stone
11	Natural sands
12	Gravel and crushed stone
13	Nonmetallic minerals n.e.c.
14	Metallic ores and concentrates
15	Coal
16	Crude Petroleum
17	Gasoline and aviation turbine fuel
18	Fuel oils
19	Coal and petroleum products, n.e.c.
20	Basic chemicals
21	Pharmaceutical products
22	Fertilizers
23	Chemical products and preparations, n.e.c.
24	Plastics and rubber
25	Logs and other wood in the rough
26	Wood products
27	Pulp, newsprint, paper, and paperboard
28	Paper or paperboard articles
29	Printed products
30	Textiles, leather, and articles of textiles or leather
31	Nonmetallic mineral products
32	Base metal in primary or semi-finished forms and in finished basic shapes
33	Articles of base metal
34	Machinery
35	Electronic and other electrical equipment and components and office equipment
36	Motorized and other vehicles (including parts)
37	Transportation equipment, n.e.c.
38	Precision instruments and apparatus
39	Furniture, mattresses and mattress supports, lamps, lighting fittings
40	Miscellaneous manufactured products
41	Waste and scrap
43	Mixed freight
-	Commodity unknown

Transportation Modes

Code Mode
1 Truck—Includes Private and For-hire truck Private truck—Trucks operated by a temporary or permanent employee of an establishment or the buyer/receiver of the shipment. For-hire truck—Trucks that carry freight for a fee collected from the shipper, recipient of the shipment, or an arranger of the transportation.
2 Rail—Any common carrier or private railroad
3 Water—Includes Shallow Draft, Deep Draft and Great Lakes shipments, following the definitions used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers within its datasets. Shallow Draft—Barges, ships, or ferries operating primarily on rivers and canals; in harbors, the Saint Lawrence Seaway; the Intra-coastal Waterway, the Inside Passage to Alaska, major bays and inlets; or in the ocean close to the shoreline. Deep Draft—Barges, ships, or ferries operating primarily in the open ocean. Great Lakes—ORNL's transportation network and mileage calculation system allowed for separate mileage calculations for Great Lakes between the origin and destination ZIP Codes.
4 Air (includes truck-air)—Shipments that use air or a combination of truck and air. Commercial or private aircraft, and all air service for shipments that typically weigh more than 100 pounds. Includes air freight and air express.
5 Truck-Rail Intermodal—Shipments that use a combination of truck and rail.
6 Other Multiple Modes—Includes Parcel (U.S. Postal Service or Courier), truck-water, and water-rail.
7 Other and Unknown Modes—Includes Pipeline and any mode not listed above.

Data Definitions

Commodity. Based on the definition used by the 2002 U.S. Commodity Flow Survey, commodities are products that an establishment produces, sells, or distributes. This category does not include items that are considered as excess or byproducts of the establishment's operation. Respondents reported the description and the five-digit Standard Classification of Transported Goods (SCTG) code for the major commodity contained in the shipment, defined as the commodity with the greatest weight in the total shipment.

Shipment. A shipment is a single movement of goods, commodities, or products from an establishment to a single customer or to another establishment owned or operated by the same company as the originating establishment (e.g., a warehouse, distribution center, or retail or wholesale outlet). Full or partial truckloads are counted as a single shipment only if all commodities on the truck are destined for the same location. If a truck makes multiple deliveries on a route, each stop is counted as one shipment.

Standard Classification of Transported Goods (SCTG). The SCTG coding system is used to classify the commodities listed in this report. The SCTG coding system was developed jointly by agencies of the United States and Canadian governments based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (Harmonized System) to address statistical needs in regard to products transported.

Tons shipped. This represents the total weight of all shipments transported between any pair of FAF regions or within a FAF region during the course of the calendar year. Tons, in the FAF, are stated as short-tons (2,000 pounds). For freight shipped to distribution centers for subsequent reshipment, the tonnage is counted each time the goods are transported. As with value of shipments, the tonnage of a product could be counted multiple times depending on the number of times the product is transported in the production and consumption cycle. Thus, tons shipped can be, and frequently are, multiples of the estimated tons of a commodity as measured for the purposes of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Value of commodities transported. This is defined as the net selling value, f.o.b. plant, exclusive of freight charges and excise taxes. The value data are displayed in millions of 2002 U.S. dollars.

The total value of shipments, as measured by the 2002 Commodity Flow Survey, and hence by FAF, and the U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) provide different measures of economic activity in the United States and are not directly comparable. GDP is the value of all goods produced and services performed by labor and capital located in the United States. In 2002, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated at $10.4 trillion (measured in current U.S. dollars). The value of shipments, as measured by ORNL, is the market value of goods shipped from manufacturing, mining, wholesale, and mail-order retail establishments, as well as warehouses and managing offices of multi-unit establishments. This is estimated to be 13 trillion dollars in 2002.

Three important differences can be identified between GDP and value of shipments:

1. GDP captures goods produced by all establishments located in the United States, while FAF measures goods shipped from a subset of all goods-producing establishments.
2. GDP measures the value of goods produced and of services performed. FAF measures the value of goods shipped.
3. GDP counts only the value-added at each step in the production of a product. FAF captures the value of shipments of materials used to produce or manufacture a product, as well as the value of shipments of the finished product itself. This means that the value of the materials used to produce a particular product can contribute multiple times to the value.

Acronyms

AADT. Annual Average Daily Traffic

AAR. Association of American Railroads

AEO. Annual Energy Outlook

AMSA. American Moving and Storage Association

AOP. Association of Oil Pile Lines

API. American Petroleum Institute

ATA. American Trucking Association

BEA. Bureau of Economic Analysis

BTS. Bureau of Transportation Statistics

BTS/OAI. Bureau of Transportation Statistics/Office of Airline Information

CBP. County Business Patterns

CDD. Construction and Demolition Debris

CFS. Commodity Flow Survey

COTS. Commercial off the Shelf

CV. Coefficient of Variation

DMV. Department of Motor Vehicles

EEZ. Exclusive Economic Zone

EIA. Energy Information Administration

EPA. Environmental Protection Agency

EWITS. Eastern Washington Intermodal Transportation Study

FAF. Freight Analysis Framework

FERC. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

FGDC. Federal Geographic Data Committee

FHWA. Federal Highway Administration

FIPS. Federal Information Processing Standards

FMIP. Freight Model Improvement Program

GDP. Gross Domestic Product

GSP. Gross State Product

GVW. Gross Vehicle Weight

HERS. Highway Economics Requirement System

HPMS. Highway Performance Monitoring System

HS. Harmonized System

ICC. Interstate Commerce Commission

IPF. Iterative Proportional Fitting

ITDS. International Trade Data System

LNG. Liquefied Natural Gas

LPMS. Lock Performance Monitoring System

MARAD. Maritime Administration

MIO. Maritime Input Output

MPO. Metropolitan Planning Organization

MSA. Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area

MSW. Municipal Solid Waste

MTA. Metropolitan Transportation Authority

NAFTA. North American Free Trade Agreement

NAICS. North American Industry Classification System

NASS. National Agricultural Statistics Service

NDC. Navigation Data Center

NHPN. National Highway Planning Network

NHTSA. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

NFD. Network Flow Database

NMFS. National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NSDI. National Spatial Data Infrastructure

ODCM. Origin, Destination, Commodity, Mode

ORNL. Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PAD. Petroleum Administration for Defense

PCE. Passenger Car Equivalents

PIERS. Port Import Export Reporting Service

POC. Port of Clearance

POD. Port of Debarkation

POE. Port of Embarkation

RCRA. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

REIS. Regional Economic Information System

RO-RO Ship. Roll-on, Roll-off Ship

ROW. Rest of World

SCTG. Standard Classification of Transported Goods

SFTA. Strategic Freight Transportation Analysis

SIA. Spatial Interaction

SIC. Standard Industrial Classification

SQL. Standard Query Language

STB. Surface Transportation Board

STCC. Standard Transportation Commodity Code

TEU. Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit

TPE. Truck Payload Equivalents

UGPTI. Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute

USACE. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

USDA. U.S. Department of Agriculture

USDOE. U.S. Department of Energy

USDOT. U.S. Department of Transportation

VIUS. Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey

VTRIS. Vehicle Travel Information System

WCO. World Customs Organization

WCSC. Waterborne Commerce Statistical Center

WCUS. Waterborne Commerce Commodity Code

WTE. Waste to Energy

Data Sources

Carload Waybill Sample

http://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/industry/econ_waybill.html

Domestic Waterborne Commerce of the United States

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/wcsc.htm

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Annual Report

http://www.ferc.gov/about/strat-docs/annual_rep.asp

Fisheries of the United States Annual Report

http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/fus/current/2002-fus.pdf#search='Fisheries%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Annual%20Report%202002

International Waterborne Commerce of the United States

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/usforeign/index.htm

The import and export data are found at:

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/db/foreign/data/

Municipal Solid Waste- BioCycle and Beck/Chartwell Studies

http://www.jgpress.com/archives/_free/000089.html
and
http://www.jgpress.com/archives/_free/000138.html

Municipal Solid Waste-Franklin/EPA Study

http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/pubs/msw2001.pdf

Regional Elevator Survey: Grain Transportation and Industry Trends for Great Plains Elevators

http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/ugpti/DPpdf/DP143.pdf#search='north%20dakota%20regional%20elevator%20study

Transborder Surface Freight

http://www.bts.gov/transborder/

U.S. Air Freight Movements

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau-County Business Patterns 2002

http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html

U.S. Census Bureau-County Population Change

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/001758.html

U.S. Census Bureau-County to County Migration Flow 2002

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/tip_sheets/001397.html

U.S. Census of Agriculture 2002

http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/

U.S. Commodity Flow Survey 2002

http://www.census.gov/econ/www/cfs021200.pdf

U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Statistics Annual Report

http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/agstats.htm

U.S. Department of Agriculture-Census of Agriculture 2002

http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/

U.S. Department of Energy-Energy Information Administration

http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/contents.html

Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey

http://www.census.gov/econ/www/viusmain.html

Data Records

Freight Analysis Framework data derived from the three four-dimensional matrices is presented by a series of records in both comma-delimited and Access files. Value is expressed in millions of dollars, and tons are presented in thousands of short tons. Freight Flows are represented with the following structure:

Ø Domestic - Origin, Destination, Port, Commodity, Mode, Value, Tons.

Where Origin is 1 through 114 and Destination is 1 through 114, Port is domestic constant -1, Commodity is 1 through 43, and Mode is 1 through 7.

Example: 41, 29, -1, 16, 7, 16722, 103925

Origin is Region 41 (Remainder of Louisiana), Destination is Region 29 (Chicago, Illinois), Port is Domestic constant -1, Commodity 16 is Crude Petroleum, Mode 7 is pipeline in this case, Value is $16,722 million, and Tons are 103,925 thousand.

Ø Imports - Origin, Destination, Port of Embarkation, Commodity, Mode, Value, Tons.

Where Origin is 132 through 138, Destination is 1 through 114, Port of Embarkation is 1 through 131, Commodity is 1 through 43, and Mode is 1 through 7.

Ø Exports - Origin, Destination, Port of Debarkation, Commodity, Mode, Value, Tons.

Where Origin is 1 through 114, Destination is 132 through 138, Port of Debarkation is 1 through 131, Commodity is 1 through 43, and Mode is 1 through 7.

The FAF O-D matrix is provided as a series of four Access, and four identical Ascii files:

These files are:

CfsAllOd: CFS Expanded O-Ds
MxBdrOd: Transborder O-Ds
MxSeaOd: Waterborne International O-Ds
OosDmsOd: Out of Scope (to the CFS) Domestic O-Ds

Note: The "Port" column is dropped from the domestic Access files.