Intermodal
Legacy ID
1521
September 2020 North American Transborder Freight Up 3.2% from August 2020
Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in September 2020:
Total Transborder freight: $96.4 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 3.2% compared to August 2020 and up 6.0% from July 2020.
Transborder freight value in September was down 4.9% compared to September 2019.
Most-used mode: Trucks moved $63.5 billion of freight, up 4.3% compared to August 2020, down 0.8% compared to September 2019.
Second most-used mode: Railways moved $13.8 billion of freight, down 0.3% compared to August 2020, down 6.9% compared to September 2019.
Under a Quarter of Population Exposed to Office-Type Transportation Noise
Fewer than one-fourth of the 2018 U.S. population was potentially exposed to aviation and road noise, ranging from the equivalent of what people normally experience in offices at the low end (10% of population exposed) to a lawn mower or garbage disposal at the high end (0.1% exposure), according to the updated interactive National Transportation Noise Map released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
September 2020 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) rose 0.8% from August
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.8% in September from August, rising after a one-month decline, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS). From September 2019 to September 2020, the index fell 3.9% compared to a decline of 0.1% from September 2018 to September 2019 and a rise of 7.2% from September 2017 to September 2018 (Tables 1, 2, and 2A).