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:

• System Mileage Within the United States (1-1, 1-1M)
• Number of Air Carriers, Railroads, Interstate Motor Carriers, Marine Vessel Operators, and Pipeline Operators (1-2)
• U.S. Oil and Gas Pipeline Mileage (1-10)
• Number of U.S. Aircraft, Vehicles, Vessels, and Other Conveyances (1-11)
• Retail Sales of New Cars by Sector (1-18)
• Number of U.S. Truck Registrations by Type (1-22b)
• Class I Railroad Locomotive Fleet by Year Built (1-32) 
• U.S. Vehicle-Miles (1-35, 1-35M)
• Average Length of Haul, Domestic Freight and Passenger Modes (1-38, 1-38M)
• Passengers Boarded at the Top 50 U.S. Airports (1-44)
• Air Passenger Travel Arrivals in the United States from Selected Foreign Countries (1-45)
• Air Passenger Travel Departures from the United States to Selected Foreign Countries (1-46)
• Reports of Violent Crime, Property Crime, and Arrests by Transit Mode (2-38)
• Average Fuel Efficiency of U.S. Light Duty Vehicles (4-23, 4-23M)

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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