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  • Live Monitoring of Tanker Vessel Calls at US Ports
    Live Monitoring of Tanker Vessel Calls at U.S. Ports
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2025-04-14 | PDF
    While the U.S. was a net exporter via vessels of crude oil in 2024, exporting 208 million short tons, we also imported 150 million short tons of crude oil via vessels. Sixty-seven percent of crude oil by value were transported via vessels, compared to other modes.So far, in 2025, there has been a change in both the number of tankers anchoring at U. ...
  • BTS Data Reveals Longterm Trend Emerging in North American Freight Trucking
    BTS Data Reveals Long-term Trend Emerging in North American Freight Trucking
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-12-20 | PDF
    According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American freight data, a long-term trend is emerging between U.S., Canada, and Mexico freight trucking. This report provides the data behind these trends in North American freight flows, highlighting changes since 2017 in the volume and value of truck traffic between the U.S., Canada, and M ...
  • Transportation Cost Burden Falls Significantly for SecondLowest but No Other Income Group
    Transportation Cost Burden Falls Significantly for Second-Lowest, but No Other, Income Group
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-12-06 | PDF
    In 2023, U.S. households paid on average $13,174 for transportation, making it the second-largest per annum household expenditure after housing. As in previous years, households in the lowest income group spent the least on transportation in 2023 ($4,917), although they spent proportionately more of their before-tax income (32%) on transportation c ...
  • US Trade and the Impact of Low Water Levels in Gatun Lake and the Panama Canal
    U.S. Trade and the Impact of Low Water Levels in Gatun Lake and the Panama Canal
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-12-03 | PDF
    The Panama Canal is a key component of the U.S. freight transportation system. For 2023, the Panama Canal Authority reported that U.S. east coast ports exported 125.6 million long tons of cargo via the Panama Canal, with 64 percent destined for Asia, while importing 61.1 million long tons of cargo, with 68 percent originating from Asia.
  • Transportation Commodity Brief US Freight Flows with Canada and Mexico in Transportation Commodities 20172024
    Transportation Commodity Brief U.S. Freight Flows with Canada and Mexico in Transportation Commodities: 2017-2024
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-11-22 | PDF
    From 2017 to 2024, U.S. freight flows with Canada and Mexico totaled $1.9 trillion for the entire transportation commodity classification group of 86–89, which includes rail, vehicles, aircraft, and vessels. Within that commodity group, vehicles and parts (commodity group 87) comprised $1.7 trillion of freight shipments. Canada’s share of that frei ...
  • Counting the Transportation Workforce Nearly 1 Million SelfEmployed
    Counting the Transportation Workforce: Nearly 1 Million Self-Employed
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-07-01 | PDF
    Counting the transportation workforce from the industry perspective could lead to different estimates than those from the occupational perspective. Workforce employed by the transportation industry, such as transportation and warehousing sector, include those employed in transportation occupations as well as those employed in non-transportation occ ...
  • US Border Freight Transportation Resiliency
    U.S. Border Freight Transportation Resiliency
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-06-07 | PDF
    In 2023, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) participated in a data-based examination of the U.S.- Canada border with Transport Canada. The primary task of the binational working group was to identify the most consequential land border ports that could be vulnerable to disruption of international freight flows and transportation. The grou ...
  • Docked Bikeshare Ridership Increase in 2023 on Most but Not All Systems
    Docked Bikeshare Ridership Increase in 2023 on Most but Not All Systems
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-06-05 | PDF
    Most but not all docked bikeshare systems experienced an increase in ridership in 2023. In 2023, ridership declined 3% on BlueBikes (serving the Boston, MA metro area) and 2% on Bay Wheels (serving the San Francisco, CA area). With the exception of Bay Wheels, growth on BlueBikes in years prior to 2023 more than offset the decline experienced durin ...
  • Increases in Highway Construction Costs Could Reduce IIJA Funding Allocated to Transportation Up to 40 Over the Next Five Years
    Increases in Highway Construction Costs Could Reduce IIJA Funding Allocated to Transportation Up to 40% Over the Next Five Years
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-05-01 | PDF
    Higher costs reduce what can be bought with the money allocated by transportation spending bills. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Public Law 117-58), includes $673.8 billion in transportation funding for roads, bridges, transit, airports, ports, and rail. Of that $673.8 billion, the largest share ($379.3 billion, or 56%) is for h ...
  • Transportation Statistics for Earth Day
    Transportation Statistics for Earth Day
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-04-22 | PDF
    The sun has emerged from its total solar eclipse on April 8 to shine on Earth Day on April 22. Earth Day has focused attention since 1970 on environmental consequences of human activity including transportation. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) features multiple resources that help understanding of the relationships of transportation t ...
  • Information About the Port of Baltimore
    Information About the Port of Baltimore
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-04-05 | PDF
    In response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on the morning of March 26, 2024, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provides information about the Port of Baltimore.
  • Mapping Out Success A BTS Field Trip
    Mapping Out Success: A BTS Field Trip
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-02-24 | PDF
    On February 7, 2024, the halls of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) headquarters were filled with the voices of 40 fourth grade students from Stoney Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, and their teacher Abby Winek, came to visit.
  • Scooting and Pedaling to Thanksgiving Dinner
    Scooting and Pedaling to Thanksgiving Dinner
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-11-22 | PDF
    Participating in a run/walk event, commonly referred to as a “Turkey Trot,” on Thanksgiving Day is an annual event for many. There are over 750 Turkey Trots scheduled in 2023, with more than 250,000 people signed up to participate.
  • 85 of Rural Residents Have Reasonable Access to Intercity Transportation Lack of Reasonable Access Falls Disproportionately on LowIncome Households
    85% of Rural Residents Have Reasonable Access to Intercity Transportation; Lack of Reasonable Access Falls Disproportionately on Low-Income Households
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-11-14 | PDF
    In 2021, 85% of the nation’s 88.8 million rural residents had reasonable access to intercity transportation. Reasonable access means that they lived within 75 miles of a large airport or within 25 miles of a smaller airport, intercity bus stop, or intercity rail station with scheduled service. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) released ...
  • Making Transportation Count for 30 Years
    Making Transportation Count for 30 Years
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-10-28 | PDF
    In 1990, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) “Statement of National Transportation Policy” committed DOT to…“…develop more effective and permanent institutional mechanisms within the Department to ensure that transportation-related data collected by different agencies can be effectively linked, to collect data on multimodal passenger and freig ...
  • Adjusting Rail Car Safety Standards to Meet the Moment
    Adjusting Rail Car Safety Standards to Meet the Moment
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-10-26 | PDF
    In September 2023, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) published the Fleet Composition of Rail Tank Cars Carrying Flammable Liquids: 2023 Report. As noted in BTS’ release, the number of tank cars that reached the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) safety standards was greater in 2022 than in previous years.
  • Modal Profiles US Freight Transportation with Canada Mexico and China
    Modal Profiles: U.S. Freight Transportation with Canada, Mexico, and China
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-10-19 | PDF
    The United States economy relies on a unique mix of transportation modes that enable freight flows with each of its 3 biggest trading partners. Land transportation plays a larger role in moving international trade with Canada and Mexico while aviation and water play a larger role in linkages with China.
  • Unemployment in Transportation Remains Above PrePandemic Levels Women Experiencing Higher Rates Than Men
    Unemployment in Transportation Remains Above Pre-Pandemic Levels; Women Experiencing Higher Rates Than Men
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-10-10 | PDF
    Unemployment in the transportation and warehousing sector has improved substantially since reaching an all-time high during the Covid-19 pandemic, but unemployment is not yet back to pre-pandemic levels.
  • The Household Cost of Transportation Is it Affordable
    The Household Cost of Transportation: Is it Affordable?
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-09-19 | PDF
    Transportation cost burden measures the percent of income a household spends on transportation.
  • BTS Helping Local Communities Make Informed Decisions
    BTS Helping Local Communities Make Informed Decisions
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-09-15 | PDF
    The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), was signed into law on November 15, 2021. The BIL’s $1.2 trillion investment in the Nation’s infrastructure was intended to rebuild America’s roads, bridges, and rails; upgrade and expand public transit; modernize the Nation’s ports and airport ...
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