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The U.S. has a total of 3,378 bike share stations in 104 cities, according to a new report Bike-Share Stations in the U.S. issued today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. These numbers are as of April 2016.
Figure 1. Bike-Share Connectivity to Scheduled Public Transportation
Friday, April 1, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released the Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2015 (TSAR). The 20th edition of this congressionally mandated report presents key transportation indicators along with an overview of the transportation system. It also includes data and statistics on passenger travel, freight movement, transportation and the economy, system reliability, safety, energy use and environmental impacts.
All five major transportation modes truck, rail, pipeline, vessel and air carried less U.S. freight by value with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada
The U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the United States carried an all-time high of 895.5 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2015, 5.0 percent more than the previous record high of 853.1 million reached in 2014. The
All five major transportation modes truck, rail, pipeline, vessel and air carried less U.S. freight with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico by value in 2015 than in 2014. The total value of cross-border freight carried on all modes fell 7.2
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 4.1 percent more workers in January 2016 than in January 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today.January was the highest monthly total (402,204) since August 2008 and was the 26th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines full-time equivalent (FTE)
WASHINGTON The reporting carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 81.3 percent in January 2016, up from both the 76.8 percent on-time rate in January 2015 and the 77.8 percent mark in December 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Transportations Air Travel Consumer Report released today. The reporting carriers canceled 2.6 percent of their scheduled domestic
The U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines in 2015 reached all-time annual records for load factor, revenue passenger-miles (RPMs), available seat-miles (ASMs) and passenger enplanements (Tables 13, 15, 17, 19). 2015 annual U.S. airline numbers: Systemwide: The annual 2015 load factor (83.8) was the
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.5 percent in January from December, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The January 2016 index level (122.2) was 29.0
Friday, March 4, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has launched an initiative to create a National Transit Map, which is a critical missing element in the National Spatial Data Infrastructure. The National Transit Map will display stops, routes, and schedules for all participating transit agencies. DOT is asking transit agencies to voluntarily permit DOT to collect General Transit Feed Specification data from their web sites on a periodic basis, allowing for the incorporation of routing and schedule data into the National Transit Map.