Table 2: Freight Transportation Services Index Monthly Changes, 2015-2018, Oct 2018

Table 1A: Annual High and Low Points in Freight Transportation Services Index, 2009-2018, Oct 2018

Table 1: Freight, Passenger and Combined Transportation Services Indexes Since April 2018

Freight Transportation Services Index, October 2013 - October 2018

October 2018 TSI Tables

Commodity Flow Survey 2017

American manufacturers, wholesalers, and other selected industries shipped nearly 12.5 billion tons of goods valued at more than $14.3 trillion in 2017, according to preliminary numbers from the 2017 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) released today.

On a typical day in 2017, establishments in these industries moved 34.2 million tons of goods, valued at $39.2 billion, and generated nearly 8.6 billion ton-miles on the nation's transportation network.

Rail Intermodal was Top Growing Mode since Recession

Rail intermodal grew the fastest since the end of the economic recession among the freight transportation modes included in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), according to Transportation Economic Trends 2018, a new BTS report.

September 2018 North American Transborder Freight Numbers

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

• Most-used mode: Truck moved $63.3 billion of freight, up 4.2 percent compared to September 2017
• Second mode: Rail moved $15.1 billion of freight, up 7.6 percent compared to September 2017

Figure 1: North American Freight by Mode: September 2018

September 2018 Transborder Numbers