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Cargo Ground Transportation Data for Market Researchers: 9 Ranked Sources
Cargo Ground Transportation data for market researchers: 9 datasets on one shelf. Every one delivered as API, files, or warehouse rows.
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Which cargo ground transportation datasets should market researchers pull first?
We rank for research utility: the six relevance-3 records lead, two relevance-2 benchmarks follow, one relevance-1 specialist trails, ordered by quality inside each band.
How do you size the trucking and road freight market by country?
Sizing splits cleanly by geography, and this panel covers every tier a cross-border study needs.
In the United States, the Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) 2022 sizes the domestic freight market by commodity, mode, distance band and CFS area, while Freight Analysis Framework Version 5 adds regional flows by SCTG commodity, mode and trade type with forecasts to 2050 - the pairing behind most top-down US trucking models plus forward scenarios. ATA Economics and Industry Data Hub figures layer trucking-specific tonnage, employment and revenue on top of the all-mode ledgers.
Every record here sits inside the 9-dataset cargo-ground-transportation data hub.
How fresh are these sources, and what limits the evidence?
Cadence clusters at the slow end, which shapes methodology more than usual: only 3 of 9 refresh at least weekly - EU Open Data Portal and Data.gov daily, USDA AgTransport weekly - against 27.8% at-least-weekly coverage catalog-wide.
Evidence limits deserve equal attention. FAF5 leans on forecasts to 2050, so treat horizon years as projections, never observations, and read CFS 2022 as an annual snapshot rather than a monthly tracker. And FHWA's relevance-1 corridor congestion metrics describe infrastructure performance, not freight volumes - quote them only in infrastructure-focused client work.
What is the bottom line for market researchers and consultants?
Build in evidence order: fix US flows with the Commodity Flow Survey and FAF5, anchor Europe on Eurostat's tonnes and tonne-km series, add GB texture from the UK statistics, then benchmark trucking economics with ATA and lane rates with USDA AgTransport. Keep Data.gov for discovery and FHWA for congestion colour.
The wider persona catalogue sits on our all market-researchers resources page.
Straight answers
What are the best market sizing data sources for road freight?
Anchor Europe on Eurostat's road freight series - tonnes, tonne-km and vehicle-km by NST 2007 group - then add GB detail from the UK statistics.
Where can I find cargo ground transportation market size by country data?
Eurostat's road freight statistics split tonnes, tonne-km and vehicle-km by NST 2007 group, and EU Open Data Portal compares EU27-plus-Norway/Switzerland markets daily under harmonised licensing. Subnational views come from CFS 2022 by CFS area, FAF5 by region, and the UK series at ITL2 detail.
What are the best sources for consumer behavior data in trucking?
None of these 9 datasets measures end consumers - freight demand is business-derived. Closest proxies are USDA AgTransport's weekly and quarterly rate series along produce lanes and grain regions, plus ATA employment and revenue figures. For shopper-level behaviour, pair this panel with retail or e-commerce datasets rather than forcing cargo sources.
Where do consultants get their data on trucking and freight?
From national statistical agencies and EU institutions (Commodity Flow Survey, FAF5, Eurostat, UK road freight statistics) for primary flow records, trade associations such as ATA for trucking economics, USDA for lane-rate benchmarks, and the Data.gov Freight Catalog -.
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