March 2024 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Down 1.2% from the Previous Month and Down 1.0% from the Same Month Last Year
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U.S. Airlines’ March 2024 Fuel Cost per Gallon down 2.2% from February 2024; Aviation Fuel Consumption Up 4.9% from Pre-Pandemic March 2019
The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released U.S. airlines’ March 2024 fuel cost and consumption numbers indicating U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.602 billion gallons of fuel, 15.1% more fuel than in February 2024 (1.392 billion gallons) and 4....April 2024 U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment (4.7%) Rises Above the April 2023 Level (3.8%) And the Pre-Pandemic April 2019 Level (3.7%)
The unemployment rate in the U.S. transportation sector was 4.7% (not seasonally adjusted) in April 2024 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). These data have been updated on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) Unemployment in Transportation dashboard. In April 2024, the...BTS Updates Datasets to National Transportation Atlas Database, Spring 2024
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released its spring 2024 update to the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD), a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, networks, and associated infrastructure. In...BTS Updates National Transportation Statistics 04/30/2024
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released its monthly update to National Transportation Statistics (NTS), a guide to historical national-level transportation trends. This month’s updated data tables include System Mileage Within the United States, Retail Sales of New Cars by...Freight Analysis Framework 4/26/24 Updated
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released an updated version of its Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) commodity flow dataset. This newest version of the FAF (FAF 5.6) provides estimates of freight tonnage, value, and ton-miles by origin-destination pair of FAF regions, commodity...North American Transborder Freight up 7.5% in February 2024 from February 2023
Total Transborder Freight by Border in February 2024, Compared to February 2023: Transborder freight between the U.S. and North American countries Canada and Mexico: •Total transborder freight: $128.9 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, up 7.5% compared to...BTS releases Travel Patterns of Americans with Disabilities
An estimated 18.6 million people reported travel-limiting disabilities in 2022; down by a statistically significant amount from 25.5 million in 2017. In 2022, 40.2 percent of persons age 18 to 64 with travel-limiting disabilities and 57.1 of persons age 65 and over with travel-limiting...