Table 2A: Freight Transportation Services Index by Month, 2014-2017, January

Table 2: Freight Transportation Services Index Monthly Changes, 2014-2017, January

Table 1A: Annual High and Low Points in Freight Transportation Services Index, 2009-2017

Table 1: Freight, Passenger and Combined Transportation Services Indexes Since July 2016

Freight Transportation Services Index, January 2012-January 2017

Airline On-Time/Tarmac Data, January 2017

2016 North American Freight Numbers

Four out of five major transportation modes – truck, pipeline, vessel and air – carried less U.S. freight and with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico by value in 2016 than in 2015. Rail is the only major mode to carry more freight, increasing by 0.2 percent. The total value of cross-border freight carried on all modes fell 3.4 percent from 2015 to $1.069 trillion in current dollars, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) (Figure 1 and Table 1).

Annual 2016 TransBorder Excel Tables

Behind the Numbers: BTS Webinar Series

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hifh5qU4luM

Figure 4. Top Commodity Transported between the U.S. and Mexico for Each Mode of Transportation, 2016