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National Transportation Atlas Database Winter 2021 Update

The Winter 2021 update to the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) was released today with two new datasets and six updated datasets. NTAD is a Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) compilation of geospatial datasets representing the nation’s transportation infrastructure, containing...

Port Performance Freight Statistics Annual Report

Port Performance Freight Statistics in 2019, Annual Report to Congress 2020, a congressionally-mandated report, is now available from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). This edition is the fifth annual report from the BTS Port Performance Freight Statistics Program established by the...

U.S. Airlines Carried 12% More Cargo in November 2020

U.S. airlines carried 12% more cargo by weight in November 2020 (preliminary) than in November 2019.  The rise was fueled by gains of 13% in domestic cargo and 10% in international cargo, according to data filed with the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) by 14 of the leading U.S. cargo...

November 2020 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Fell Slightly

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 November from October, falling slightly after two consecutive monthly increases, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of...

October 2020 North American Transborder Freight Up 6% from September 2020

Transborder freight between the U.S. and North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in October 2020: Total Transborder freight: $102.1 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 5.8% compared to September 2020 and down 4.7% compared to October 2019. Most-used mode:...

Mid-November Airline Employment Up 5,000 from Mid-October

U.S. airlines employed 678,287 workers in the middle of November 2020, 5,000 more than in mid-October 2020 but almost 77,000 fewer than in March 2020. The November numbers consist of 565,281 full-time and 113,006 part-time workers.