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BTS Releases Pocket Guide to Transportation 2020
Thursday, January 9, 2020 – The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released the Pocket Guide to Transportation 2020 – a quick reference guide to transportation statistics. This popular pocket reference provides the latest transportation statistics at your fingertips in an updated web app, mobile app, and classic annual printed publication.
Freight Facts and Figures Winter 2020 Update
Wednesday, January 8 - The Freight Facts and Figures winter update was released today with new freight flow estimates from the Freight Analysis Framework (FAF). According to the latest FAF estimates, the leading commodities by weight are bulk goods, including fossil fuel products (termed “other fossil fuel products”) such as natural gas, coke, and asphalt; gravel; gasoline; cereal grains; and crude petroleum. The leading commodities by value, with the exception of energy products, are high value-per-ton goods, such as electronics, motorized vehicles, mixed freight (largely food), gasoline, and machinery.