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BTS Updates National Transportation Statistics 09/30/2024

Today, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released its monthly update to National Transportation Statistics (NTS), a guide to historical national-level transportation trends. This month’s updated data tables include the Number of U.S. Airports, Airport Runway Pavement Conditions,...

The Number of Safer Rail Tank Cars Continued to Increase in 2023

Key Points: •All jacketed (a layer of thermal insulation) and non-jacketed DOT-111 and non-jacketed CPC1232 tank cars that carried ethanol met the May 1 and July 1, 2023, phaseout deadlines. •Nearly all cars that carried either crude oil or ethanol met DOT-117 specifications. Jacketed CPC...