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This 2024 report summarize progress made in upgrading North American rail tank cars transporting Class 3 flammable liquids to the DOT-117 standards. The new DOT-117 standards, finalized in 2015, specify the...
A large scale map depicting the location of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge and nearby transportation infrastructure in Baltimore, Maryland. Please visit this page for a smaller scale version of this map.
In accordance with the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) released its Fleet Composition of Rail Tank Cars Carrying Class 3 Flammable Liquids: 2023 Report. The report discusses the progress in upgrading the rail tank car fleet...
Thank you to all our data providers and others who have aided BTS OSRA team in establishing the program. As noted on this page, this OSRA data collection was experimental as we tried to identify a complete list of in-scope chassis providers from which to collect data. Without this list, we cannot assess the quality of the statistics.
The report describes the progress of tank car safety upgrades from 2013 through 2020, by tank car type and type of flammable liquid. Class 3 flammable liquids most commonly include crude oil, ethanol, and refined petroleum...
This map is included in the Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2018 publication.
Last weekend, millions of Americans turned back their clocks one hour to mark the return from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. But, not everyone did. Some states (Hawaii, Arizona--except for the Navajo Nation within the state) and U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, Northern...
Data spotlights represent data and statistics from a specific period of time, and do not reflect ongoing data collection. As individual spotlights are static stories, they are not subject to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) web standards and may not be updated after...