2018 Transborder Tables

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

Figure 1: North American Freight by Mode: 2017 and 2018

BTS National Transportation Statistics Updated

Thursday, March 21, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data was updated today.

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).

January 2019 TSI

Freight Transportation Services Index, January 2014- January 2019

Table 9: Combined Transportation Services Index from Year-to-Year, January 2019

Table 8: Combined Transportation Services Index Monthly Changes, 2016-2019, January 2019

Table 7: Passenger Transportation Services Index from Year-to-Year, January 2019