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Airlines, 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...

Transportation and Warehousing Labor Productivity Components by Mode

Figure with latest data available at:

https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/cksf-e5wx/

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Shaded areas indicate economic recessions. Labor hours is the total number of number of hours worked by all workers in a sector to produce gross output. Gross output is the total value of goods and services produced by the sector. Gross output includes the value of the goods and services used to produce the sector output. Labor productivity measures a sector’s output per unit of labor...

Transportation and Warehousing Total Factor Productivity Components by Mode

Figure with latest data available at:

https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/k65c-hne3#components-of-total-factor-productivity-by-transportation-mode

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Shaded areas indicate economic recessions.

Value of Transportation Capital Stock

Figure with latest data available at:

https://data.transportation.gov/stories/s/ab7y-wzpz

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Capital stock data are reported after deducting depreciation. Other publicly owned transportation includes publicly owned airway, waterway, and transit structures but does not include associated equipment. Locks and dams may be included under Other publicly owned transportation. Household includes personal vehicles, which are considered consumer durable goods. In-house transportation is...