Alabama Landscapes

Transportation

Table of Contents

UPPopulationEducationReligionEconomyTransportation
 

Alabama's navigable waterways are used for recreation and transporting freight. In 2003 most of the freight was either coal or forest products.  The Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway is the largest such project in the United States.

Figure T5.  Freight movement on Alabama's waterways 2003.(http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/wcsc/wcsc.htm)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Figure T6. Barge traffic, Wheeler Dam, Tennessee River. (Image © Mike Neilson)

 

 

 

 

Freight moves through Alabama by road, rail and water. In 1997 (the last year for which complete data are readily available), transportation of freight that originated within the state by whatever measure you choose was dominated by road.

Figure T7 Freight transport originating in Alabama 1997 (http://www.bts.gov/publications)

END

  

UPPopulationEducationReligionEconomyTransportation