Intermodal
Legacy ID
1521
The Longer Route to School
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - More than half of pre-high school students in the United States—about 20 million children in 2016 aged 5-14—travel over 2 miles to school. At these distances, students are nearly evenly split between taking a school bus and being driven in a private vehicle. For many students, however, additional factors often make the school bus their only practical means of transportation, notably household income and vehicle ownership:
National Transportation Statistics 9/4/19 Update, Shares of U.S. Energy Consumption and other categories
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a guide to historical national-level transportation trends was updated today.
June 2019 North American Transborder Freight Numbers
Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in June 2019:
- Total Transborder Freight: $103.8 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, down 2.3% compared to June 2018
- Most-used mode: Trucks moved $65.6 billion of freight, down 1.5% compared to June 2018
- Second mode: Railways moved $15.8 billion of freight, up 0.5% compared to June 2018
June 2019 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, fell 0.1% in June from revised May, falling for the second consecutive month, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS). From June 2018 to June 2019, the index rose 1.3% compared to a rise of 8.9% for the previous year (Tables 1, 2, and 2A).