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National Transportation Statistics 4/2/19 Update, Freight Flows and other tables
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 - National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data was updated today.
https://www.bts.gov/topics/national-transportation-statistics
Weight of U.S. Exports to and Imports from Canada and Mexico by Transportation Mode
KEY: R = revised.
a Other includes "flyaway aircraft" or aircraft moving under their own power (i.e., aircraft moving from the manufacturer to a customer and not carrying any freight), powerhouse (electricity), vessels moving under their own power, pedestrians carrying freight, mode unknown, mail, imports into Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs), and miscellaneous. Although FTZs are treated as a mode of transportation in the Transborder Freight Data, the actual mode for a specific shipment into or out of an FTZ is unknown because U.S....
2018 North American Transborder Freight Numbers
Transborder freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in 2018:
- Most-used mode: Truck moved $772 billion of freight, up 7.1 percent compared to 2017
- Second mode: Rail moved $179 billion of freight, up 2.7 percent compared to December 2017
2018 Traffic Data for U.S Airlines and Foreign Airlines U.S. Flights
U.S. airlines and foreign airlines serving the U.S. carried an all-time high of 1.0 billion systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in 2018, 4.8 percent more than the previous record high of 965.4 million reached in 2017. The year-over-year systemwide increase resulted from a 4.9 percent rise in the number of passengers on domestic flights (777.9 million passengers in 2018) and 4.4 percent growth in passengers on U.S. and foreign airlines’ flights to and from the U.S. (233.6 million passengers in 2018) (Tables 1, 1A, 5, 9). Systemwide passengers include those on scheduled domestic flights plus those on scheduled flights to and from the United States.