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The Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics (ACTS) was created with the establishment of the Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to advise the BTS Director “on transportation statistics and analyses,...
The Intermodal Transportation Database is defined in Section 6303 of Title 49, United States Code, to include information on the volumes of freight and passenger movement by mode, origin, and destinations; location and connectivity of transportation facilities; information on location and...
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HighlightsExtensive data are available on local passenger travel and most long-distance freight movement, but data gaps exist for long-distance travel, domestic movement of international trade, and local freight movement.Cost data are available for most forms of passenger...Links for submitting data to BTS for:
Airlines Annual Tank Car Survey Confidential Close Calls Electric Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (eVIUS) National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) National Transit Map SafeOCSWASHINGTON Airlines reported 11 tarmac delays of more than three hours on domestic flights and 10 tarmac delays of more than four hours on international flights in July, according to the U.S. Department of Transportations Air Travel Consumer Report released today. All reported extended tarmac delays are investigated by the Department. In addition, in July, the
The U.S. Department of Transportations Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service load factor a measure of the use of airline capacity remained unchanged at 83.4 percent in May, seasonally adjusted, from April (Table 1). Seasonal adjustment allows the comparing
Friday, October 30, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today issued its annual directive detailing the requirements for the reporting of airline on-time data for calendar year 2016.
U.S.-NAFTA freight totaled $96.1 billion in March 2015 as three out of five transportation modes – air, rail, and truck – carried more U.S.-NAFTA freight than in March 2014, according to the TransBorder Freight Data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) (Figure 1, Table 1).
WASHINGTON – The nation’s largest airlines canceled 0.9 percent of their scheduled domestic flights in November, an improvement over both the 1.0 percent cancellation rate posted in November 2013 and the 1.1 percent rate in October 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
Friday, September 26, 2014 - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released Passenger Travel Facts and Figures 2014, a snapshot of the characteristics and trends of personal travel in the United States; the network over which passenger travel takes place; and the related economic, safety, and environmental implications.