Persons Traveling Into the United States at Land Border Crossings and International Airports: 2015
This map is included in the Passenger Travel Facts and Figures 2016 publication.
Highway and Road
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National Transportation Statistics 2/27/2020 Update, Principal Means of Transportation to Work and other categories
Thursday, February 27, 2020 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a guide to historical national-level transportation trends was updated today.
Transshipment Data
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National Transportation Statistics 1/30/2020 Update, Highway Demand for Gasoline and other categories
Thursday, January 30, 2020 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a guide to historical national-level transportation trends was updated today.
Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS)
The VIUS has been the principal data source on the physical and operational characteristics of the United States truck population. Its primary goal is to gain an understanding nationally and statewide on how trucks are being utilized for various goods transport. The first survey was conducted in 1963. It was then conducted every five years beginning in 1967 through 2002. Please see the Historical Data section below for access to this data.
BTS Releases Pocket Guide to Transportation 2020
Thursday, January 9, 2020 – The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released the Pocket Guide to Transportation 2020 – a quick reference guide to transportation statistics. This popular pocket reference provides the latest transportation statistics at your fingertips in an updated web app, mobile app, and classic annual printed publication.
Freight Facts and Figures Winter 2020 Update
Wednesday, January 8 - The Freight Facts and Figures winter update was released today with new freight flow estimates from the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF). According to the latest FAF estimates, the leading commodities by weight are bulk goods, including fossil fuel products (termed “other fossil fuel products”) such as natural gas, coke, and asphalt; gravel; gasoline; cereal grains; and crude petroleum. The leading commodities by value, with the exception of energy products, are high value-per-ton goods, such as electronics, motorized vehicles, mixed freight (largely food), gasoline, and machinery.
October 2019 North American Transborder Freight Numbers
Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in October 2019:
Total Transborder Freight: $107.1 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, down 3.3% compared to October 2018
- Most-used mode: Trucks moved $68.2 billion of freight, down 2.7% compared to October 2018
- Second mode: Railways moved $14.5 billion of freight, down 7.9% compared to October 2018