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Distance shipped

Term · Transportation · MLC-T-TRA-000111

The distance between origin and destination for a shipment. For the distance shipped intervals table, the distance is calculated based on the great circle distance between the origin and destination ZIP Code centroids. All other distance-related data (i.e., ton-miles and average miles per shipment) are based on the mileage calculations produced by Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-TRA-000111
FieldTransportation
ReferencesTranStats Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-TRA-000111",
  "term": "Distance shipped",
  "field": "Transportation",
  "term_source": "Distance Shipped",
  "definition": "The distance between origin and destination for a shipment. For the distance shipped intervals table, the distance is calculated based on the great circle distance between the origin and destination ZIP Code centroids. All other distance-related data (i.e., ton-miles and average miles per shipment) are based on the mileage calculations produced by Oak Ridge National Laboratories.",
  "references": [
    "TranStats Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/transportation/distance-shipped/"
}

Record 107 of 429 in Transportation terminology (MLC-0120). Request the full dataset.