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Freight Facts and Figures, developed by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, is a collection of charts and statistical tables about freight transportation in the United States. These interactive visualizations and tables provide a snapshot of freight movement; the extent, condition, and performance of the freight transportation system; the economic implications of freight movement; and the safety, energy, and environmental impacts of freight transportation.
National Transportation Statistics presents statistics on the U.S. transportation system, including its physical components, safety record, economic performance, the human and natural environment, and national security. This is a large online document comprising more than 260 data tables plus data source and accuracy statements, glossary and a list of acronyms and initialisms.
Overall, Americans took 2.8 billion fewer total trips (4.6 billion) during the Labor Day weekend this year than they did in 2019 (7.4 billion). That overall drop of 38% included declines in travel for each day of the 3-day weekend plus the 2 days before the weekend when many...
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) prioritized resources to develop timely indicators to track transportation changes due to COVID-19. BTS partnered with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Department of Energy to access Vehicle Travel Trends from INRIX. BTS also...
BTS experimented with statistics during the COVID-19 public health emergency, including daily vehicle travel and changes in travel behavior. Statistical products that continue after the COVID-19 public health emergency include Monthly Transportation Statistics, Supply Chain Indicators, and The...
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...
BTS is now using data.bts.gov to ensure that our data is usable, shareable, accessible, and discoverable. We expect this platform will help people use our data in ways that were not possible before.
We expect to update the data regularly. We also expect to ...
BTS has discontinued the “Daily Mobility Statistics” product, which estimated the number of Americans staying at home during the onset of COVID-19 as well as the temporal and spatial trip patterns (national-, state-, and county-level) of the traveling public over the subsequent months and years of the pandemic. This product will no longer be updated, with the final delivery received for the week of March 31-April 6, 2024.