Table 5: Transportation Services Indexes from Previous Years, July 2017

Table 4: Freight Transportation Services Index from Year-to-Year, July 2017

Table 2A: Freight Transportation Services Index by Month, 2014-2017, July 2017

Table 2: Freight Transportation Services Index Monthly Changes, 2014-2017, July 2017

Table 1A: Annual High and Low Points in Freight Transportation Services Index, 2009-2017, July 2017

Table 1: Freight, Passenger and Combined Transportation Services Indexes Since January 2017, July 2017

Freight Transportation Services Index, July 2012 - July 2017

Freight by Mode since the Recession

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) has shown that all but one of the major freight modes grew since the recession that ended in June 2009 with rail intermodal growing the fastest, rising 50.6 percent from June 2009 (the end of the economic recession) to December 2016.

Figure 3. Detrended Freight TSI, Detrended and Smoothed Freight TSI and Growth Cycles: January 1979–December 2016

Figure 2. Freight TSI modal data changes since the recession, June 2009 - December 2016