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The US rail freight volume was 2.2 trillion tonne-km in 2022, compared to 400 billion tonne-km shipped in Europe.

Meanwhile, US road freight was about 3.6 trillion tkm, and EU road freight 2 trillion tkm.

So not only does the US do about 5x the rail freight of the EU, US rail is about 38% of freight, compared to 17% in the EU.




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