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Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2017

PDF: Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR) 2017 

Chapter 1 - Extent and Physical Condition of the U.S. Transportation System

Chapter 2 - Moving People

Chapter 3 - ...

Pocket Guide to Transportation

The BTS Pocket Guide to Transportation is a popular, quick reference guide that provides transportation statistics at your fingertips. It provides key information and highlights major trends on the U.S. transportation system. 

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BTS Issues Freight TSI Technical Note

Friday, December 15, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics has released Technical Note, Long-Term Growth in Freight Transportation Services: Methods and Findings, which examines the pattern of freight transportation services beginning in 2004 until the Great Recession beginning in December 2007, as measured by the Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), and compares it to the pattern from the recession through 2016.

October 2017 Passenger Airline Employment Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.4 percent more workers in October 2017 than in October 2016, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. October was the highest monthly full-time equivalent (FTE) employment total (430,232 FTEs) since January 2005 (430,780) and was the 48th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines' FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.