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USDOT Announces Solving for Safety Visualization Finalists

 

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced two finalists, Ford Motor Co. and the University of Central Florida, for the third and final stage of the Solving for Safety Visualization Challenge. The challenge, a national, multistage competition with a total prize of $350,000, was announced last year, seeking innovative analytical visualization tools that can improve safety on our nation’s road and rail systems.

Weight of U.S. Exports to and Imports from Canada and Mexico by Transportation Mode

KEY: R = revised.

 

a Other includes "flyaway aircraft" or aircraft moving under their own power (i.e., aircraft moving from the manufacturer to a customer and not carrying any freight), powerhouse (electricity), vessels moving under their own power, pedestrians carrying freight, mode unknown, mail, imports into Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs), and miscellaneous. Although FTZs are treated as a mode of transportation in the Transborder Freight Data, the actual mode for a specific shipment into or out of an FTZ is unknown because U.S....

2018 North American Transborder Freight Numbers

Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in 2018:

  • Most-used mode: Truck moved $772 billion of freight, up 7.1 percent compared to 2017
  • Second mode: Rail moved $179 billion of freight, up 2.7 percent compared to December 2017

January 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, rose 0.4 percent in January from December, rising after a one-month decline but increasing for the fifth out of the last six months. For the year from January 2018, the index rose 4.7 percent compared to 5.3 percent for the previous 12-month period (Table 4).