Table 1: Freight, Passenger and Combined Transportation Services Indexes Since December 2016

Freight by Mode since the Recession

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) has shown that all but one of the major freight modes grew since the recession that ended in June 2009 with rail intermodal growing the fastest, rising 50.6 percent from June 2009 (the end of the economic recession) to December 2016.

Figure 3. Detrended Freight TSI, Detrended and Smoothed Freight TSI and Growth Cycles: January 1979–December 2016

Figure 2. Freight TSI modal data changes since the recession, June 2009 - December 2016

Figure 1. Freight TSI modal data, January 2000-December 2016

Lists of Reporting Air Carriers and Reportable Airports, for On-Time Performance and Oversales Data

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TITLE 14 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PARTS 234 AND 250REPORTING AIR CARRIERS

ISSUE DATE: July 27, 2017 EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2018

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U.S. Waterborne Freight (Metric)

KEY: R = revised.

U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight (Millions)

KEY: R = revised; U = data are unavailable.

Average Length of Haul, Domestic Freight and Passenger Modes (metric)

KEY: N = data do not exist; NA = not applicable; R = revised; U = data are not available.

^aAmtrak began operations in 1971. Data are reported for fiscal years.

May 2017 North American Freight Numbers