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1581
National
- BTS publishes:
- The Transportation Statistics Annual Report for a description of transportation trends, contributing factors, and the state of transportation statistics
- Pocket Guide to Transportation, a book and cell phone app and web app with visualizations that highlight key national transportation statistics
- The Week in Transportation for flash estimates of daily and weekly transportation activity by mode, comparing 2020 to
Safety
- Safety is highlighted in the Transportation Statistics Annual Report, Freight Facts and Figures, and Passenger Travel Facts and Figures, and measured in selected tables of National Transportation Statistics and State Transportation Statistics.
- BTS
Annual Airline Rankings
Airline Rankings from 2008
Annual Airport Rankings
Airport Rankings since 2009Airlines, Airports, and Aviation
Check out quick links for popular air carrier statistics, including information on airline passenger counts and cargo between individual airports, airline ticket prices, on-time performance by carrier and flight, and airline finance, employment, fuel costs.Freight Facts and Figures
Freight Facts and Figures, developed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, is a collection of charts and statistical tables about freight transportation in the United States. These interactive visualizations and tables provide a snapshot of freight movement; the extent, condition, and performance of the freight transportation system; the economic implications of freight movement; and the safety, energy, and environmental impacts of freight transportation.
U.S. Tonne-Kilometers of Freight
KEY: R= revised; U = data are not available.
a Incudes Freight, Express, and Mail.
b Estimates from 1980 to 1989 come from the Association of American Railroads using ton mile values from the Surface Transportation Board’s Waybill Sample. The Waybill Sample represents all major U.S. railroads, including all Class I railroads and several short-line railroads.
c Foreign water traffic is only measured for their travel on U.S. waterways, based on distance from coastal entrance channels to ports and waterways,...