Figure 1: North American Freight by Mode: January 2019

USDOT Announces Solving for Safety Visualization Finalists

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced two finalists, Ford Motor Co. and the University of Central Florida, for the third and final stage of the Solving for Safety Visualization Challenge. The challenge, a national, multistage competition with a total prize of $350,000, was announced last year, seeking innovative analytical visualization tools that can improve safety on our nation’s road and rail systems.

National Transportation Statistics 4/2/19 Update, Freight Flows and other tables

Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data was updated today.

https://www.bts.gov/topics/national-transportation-statistics

Air Travel Consumer Report: January 2019 Numbers

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today released its March 2019 Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on marketing and reporting air carrier data compiled for the month of January 2019.  The full consumer report and other aviation consumer matters of interest to the public can be found at http://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer.

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

2018 Annual US and Foreign Air Traffic Tables

2018 Traffic Data for U.S Airlines and Foreign Airlines U.S. Flights

U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the U.S. carried an all-time high of 1.0 billion systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2018, 4.8 percent more than the previous record high of 965.4 million reached in 2017. The year-over-year systemwide increase resulted from a 4.9 percent rise in the number of passengers on domestic flights (777.9 million passengers in 2018) and 4.4 percent growth in passengers on U.S. and foreign airlines’ flights to and from the U.S. (233.6 million passengers in 2018) (Tables 1, 1A, 5, 9). Systemwide passengers include those on scheduled domestic flights plus those on scheduled flights to and from the United States.

Annual Passengers on All U.S. Scheduled Airline Flights (Domestic & International) and Foreign Airline Flights to and from the United States, 2003-2018