Aviation and Drones
September 2016 Flight Cancellations at All-Time Lows
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s monthly Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) released today states that reporting carriers canceled 0.3 percent of their scheduled domestic flights in September 2016, the lowest for any of the 261 months with comparable records since...
Three-Country North American Transportation Statistics Database Updated
Monday, November 21, 2016 - New three-country data was added this week to the North American Transportation Statistics (NATS) Online Database in the 12th annual website update. A product of the North American Transportation Statistics Interchange, the NATS Online Database contains...
SafeOCS Program Expanded to Accept Equipment Failure Data
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) today announced the expansion of reporting of ‘near misses’ on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) through...
BTS Asks for National Transit Map Data by Nov. 15
Friday, November 4, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is asking transit agencies to submit data by Nov. 15 for the second edition of the National Transit Map.
Industry Snapshots
The Wholesale and Retail Trade sector relied on the most transportation services of any sector of the U.S. economy, according to Industry Snapshots: Uses of Transportation, a new report released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) (Table 1, Figure 1).