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BTS Updates Transportation Economic Trends Winter 2026

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), today released its Winter 2026 update to the Transportation Economic Trends (TET). TET highlights transportation's role in the economy and explores changes (trends) over time through a series of interactive charts and downloadable data. TET also explains related concepts and data sources for a general audience.

With this data release, BTS updated the following topics in TET:

Transportation Producer Price Index – February 2026

Today, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released the change in the costs faced by producers purchasing transportation services and industries producing them, from February 2025 to February 2026, as measured by the Producer Price Index (PPI). The PPI measures inflation from the...