National Transportation Statistics 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 tables include     transportation safety statistics, roadway and lane-mile vehicle-miles traveled, goods export and import to Canada and Mexico, number of U.S. airports, vehicle production and fuel economy, sales price of transportation fuel, freight per ton-mile, and air pollution trends.    

Updated Tables by Topics:

Physical Extent

• Number of U.S. Airports (1-3)

Vehicle, Aircraft, and Vessel Inventory

• Productions, Production Shares, and Production-Weighted Fuel Economies of New Domestic and Imported Automobiles (1-20)

Travel and Goods Movement

• Roadway Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) and VMT per Lane-Mile by Functional System (1-36)
• U.S. Ton-Miles of Freight (1-50)
• 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)

Multimodal Safety

• Transportation Fatalities by Mode (2-1)

Highway Safety

• Motor Vehicle Safety Data (2-17)

Transit Safety

• Transit Safety Data by Mode for All Reported Incidents (2-34)

Transportation and Consumer Expenditures

• Sales Price of Transportation Fuel to End-Users (3-11)

Transportation Revenues, Employment, and Productivity

• Average Freight Revenue per Ton-Mile (3-21)

Air Pollution

• Air Pollution Trends in Selected Metropolitan Statistical Areas (4-51)
• U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Energy Use by Sector (4-53)

Metric Conversion Tables

• Roadway Vehicle-Kilometers Traveled (VKT) and VKT per Lane-Kilometers by Functional Class (1-36M)
• U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight (1-50M)

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