Air Travel Consumer Report: September Consumer Complaints Down 15.6% from August, Yet Remain Three Times Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels

U.S. Airlines’ October 2022 Fuel Cost per Gallon Down 1.2% from September 2022; Aviation Fuel Consumption Down 7.0% from Pre-Pandemic October 2019

North American Transborder Freight up 22.6% in September 2022 from September 2021

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Low Water on the Mississippi Slows Critical Freight Flows

Scant rainfall severely hampers barge shipments

Data Highlights

Regular Gasoline Price per Gallon

$3.52 February 2022, +$1.02 from February 2021

State, Local Gov't Spending on Parking Facilities

$43M January 2022, - $48M from January 2021

Rail Transit Ridership

172M January 2022, +59M from January 2021

Air Transportation Employees

527K February 2022, +91K from February 2021

Docked Bikeshare Trips

1.67M February 2022, +128K from February 2021

Automobile Sales

200K January 2022, -50K from January 2021

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December 2, 2022

National Transportation Statistics 12/2/22 Updated

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released its monthly update to National Transportation Statistics (NTS), a guide to historical national-level transportation trends. This month’s updated data tables include System Mileage, Amtrak and Rail Transit Stations, American with Disabilities Act supported Transit Buses, Number of Aircraft, Vehicles, Vessels, and Other Conveyances, Average Age of Urban Transit Vehicles, Vehicle and Passenger Miles, Principal Means of Transportation

12/02/2022 Air Travel Consumer Report: September Consumer Complaints Down 15.6% from August, Yet Remain Three Times Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Levels

12/02/2022 U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment Rate of 4.6% in November 2022 Was Below the November 2021 Level of 6.1% But Was Above the Pre-Pandemic November Level of 3.3% in 2019

12/01/2022 U.S. Airlines’ October 2022 Fuel Cost per Gallon Down 1.2% from September 2022; Aviation Fuel Consumption Down 7.0% from Pre-Pandemic October 2019

11/23/2022 Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 22)

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