The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released its monthly update to National Transportation Statistics (NTS), a guide to historical national-level transportation trends.

Each month, BTS updates NTS with transportation statistics from across the following areas:

• The extent, condition, use, and performance of the physical transportation network and infrastructure;
• Safety information including accidents, crashes, fatalities, and injuries for each transportation mode and for hazardous materials movement;
• Transportation’s impact on the economy, including gross domestic product, employment by industry and occupation, and transportation-related consumer and Government expenditures; and
• Transportation’s impact on energy use.

This month, the following tables received new data:

• Average Age of Urban Transit Vehicles (1-29)
• U.S.-Canadian Border Land-Freight Gateways: Number of Incoming Truck or Rail Container Crossings (1-52)
• U.S.-Canadian Border Land-Freight Gateways: Number of Incoming Truck or Train Crossings (1-53)
• U.S.-Mexican Border Land-Freight Gateways: Number of Incoming Truck or Rail Container Crossings (1-54)
• U.S.-Mexican Border Land-Freight Gateways: Number of Incoming Truck and Train Crossings (1-55) 
• Value of U.S. Exports to and Imports from Canada and Mexico by Transportation Mode (1-60a)
• Weight of U.S. Exports to and Imports from Canada and Mexico by Transportation Mode (1-60b)
• Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Transported in the United States by Mode (1-61)
• Annual Person-Hours of Highway Traffic Delay Per Auto Commuter (1-69)
• Travel Time Index (1-70)
• Annual Highway Congestion Cost (1-72)
• Transit Safety Transit Safety and Property Damage Data (2-32)
• Railroad and Grade-Crossing Fatalities (2-39)
• Railroad and Grade-Crossing Injured Persons (2-40)

NTS is a collection of transportation data first published by BTS in November 1971.  NTS has grown to over 200 regularly updated datasets and tables after incorporating materials from other Department of Transportation programs.

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