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BTS Updates National Transportation Statistics 1/31/2025

Friday, January 31, 2025

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 and the environment.

This month, the following tables received new data:

  • Transportation Fatalities by Mode (2-1)
  • Injured Persons by Transportation Mode (2-2)
  • Transportation Accidents by Mode (2-3)
  • Distribution of Transportation Fatalities by Mode (2-4)
  • Highway-Rail Grade-Crossing Safety and Property Damage Data (2-5)
  • U.S. Air Carrier Safety Data (2-9)
  • U.S. Commuter Air Carrier Safety Data (2-10)
  • U.S. Air Carrier Fatal Accidents by Defining Event of Operation (2-11)
  • U.S. Commuter Air Carrier Fatal Accidents by Defining Event of Operation (2-12)
  • U.S. On-Demand Air Taxi Safety Data (2-13)
  • U.S. General Aviation Safety Data (2-14)
  • Transit Safety Data by Mode for All Reported Incidents (2-34)
  • Reports of Violent Crime, Property Crime, and Arrests by Transit Mode (2-38)
  • Railroad and Grade-Crossing Fatalities (2-39)
  • Estimated U.S. Average Vehicle Emissions Rates per Vehicle by Vehicle Type Using Gasoline, Diesel, and Electric (4-43)

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.