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  • Historic Week for Rail in America
    Historic Week for Rail in America
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-05
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    May 1, 2021 marked 50 years since the first Amtrak passenger rail trip and since the Golden Spike of North America’s first transcontinental railroad...
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  • North American Freight Data Reveals Growth in Unsung Trade Modes
    North American Freight Data Reveals Growth in Unsung Trade Modes
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-08-25
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    There has been a lot of attention lately on challenges to the supply chain since the onset of COVID-19, most of it focused on goods flowing into and o...
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  • Navigating the Complexities of COVID19 Stimulus Funding for Transportation
    Navigating the Complexities of COVID-19 Stimulus Funding for Transportation
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-06-28
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    The transportation industry was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The steep decline in air travel has led to persistent job loss in air transportatio...
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  • On National Maritime Day and Every Day US Economy Relies on Waterborne Shipping
    On National Maritime Day and Every Day, U.S. Economy Relies on Waterborne Shipping
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-12
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    In 1933, Congress declared National Maritime Day to commemorate the first transatlantic crossing under steam propulsion. BTS honors Maritime Day by ob...
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  • Summer Mobility Heats Up Passenger Airline Flights and Road Travel Increased Through MidJuly Delta COVID19 Variant Threatens Travel Gains
    Summer Mobility Heats Up: Passenger Airline Flights and Road Travel Increased Through Mid-July, Delta COVID-19 Variant Threatens Travel Gains
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-08-11
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    In mid-July, the U.S. summer travel season was in full swing. The miles Americans traveled on the road were up, and the number of domestic passenger a...
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  • Thanksgiving 2021 Air Travel was No Turkey as Sunday After Holiday Sets New Pandemic Air Travel Record
    Thanksgiving 2021 Air Travel was No Turkey as Sunday After Holiday Sets New Pandemic Air Travel Record
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-12-06
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    Although BTS air travel performance data (e.g., delays and cancellations) for late November is not yet available, the dominant story in the media has ...
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  • As Daylight Saving Time Approaches a Good Opportunity to Look at US Time Zones
    As Daylight Saving Time Approaches, a Good Opportunity to Look at U.S. Time Zones
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-03-11
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    The clocks in many American households will be set an hour ahead this weekend, signaling the arrival of Daylight Saving Time (DST). This “Spring For...
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  • Holiday Surge in Travel Exceeds Last Year for Trips to Places between 50 and 500 Miles Away but is Still Less Than Last Year for Local Travel and Trips Over 500 Miles
    Holiday Surge in Travel Exceeds Last Year for Trips to Places between 50 and 500 Miles Away, but is Still Less Than Last Year for Local Travel and Trips Over 500 Miles
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-03-03
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    As the charts below show, on average, a greater percentage of Americans stayed home each day this holiday season (12/18/2020–1/3/2021) than during t...
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  • I40 Bridge Failure Causes Multimodal Challenges
    I-40 Bridge Failure Causes Multimodal Challenges
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-17
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    On May 11, Arkansas DOT bridge inspectors discovered a crack in the structure of the De Soto Bridge on I-40 over the Mississippi River. The Tennessee ...
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  • March 2021 Airline Passenger Volume Shows Signs of Aviation Recovery
    March 2021 Airline Passenger Volume Shows Signs of Aviation Recovery
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-06-01
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    The month of March typically has large increases in airline passengers and flights from the year’s low point in February. This year’s February-Mar...
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  • World Statistics Day 2020
    World Statistics Day 2020
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2020-10-20
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    October 20 is World Statistics Day, a celebration sponsored by the United Nations every five years to acknowledge that, “the production of reliable,...
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  • US Airlines Operate 56 More Flights in July than June
    U.S. Airlines Operate 56% More Flights in July than June
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2020-10-23
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    In good news for air travelers, U.S. airlines expanded their flight schedules and largely stuck to them in July. The 367,933 flights in July represent...
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  • BTS Freight Transportation Services Index Increases for Third Consecutive Month Whats a Freight Transportation Services Index
    BTS Freight Transportation Services Index Increases for Third Consecutive Month; What's a Freight Transportation Services Index?
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-07-22
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    Freight is an important part of the U.S. economy. In 2017, the most recent year of available data, American manufacturers, wholesalers, and other indu...
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  • BTS Mines Multiple Data Sources for Clues to PostPandemic New Transportation Normal
    BTS Mines Multiple Data Sources for Clues to Post-Pandemic New Transportation Normal
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-07-07
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    When combined with pulse surveys and other data, measuring daily travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic can help identify trends that might beco...
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  • Suez Canal Blockage by Ever Given Will Affect US Ports Businesses Consumers
    Suez Canal Blockage by Ever Given Will Affect U.S. Ports, Businesses, Consumers
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-04-01
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    The temporary blockage of the Suez Canal by the grounded container ship Ever Given affects cargo movement well beyond the Mediterranean and Red Seas. ...
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  • 53 Million Miles to Gold the US Olympic Team Travels to 2021 Tokyo Games Amid a Summer of Air Travel Challenges
    5.3 Million Miles to Gold; the U.S. Olympic Team Travels to 2021 Tokyo Games Amid a Summer of Air Travel Challenges
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-07-30
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    The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams have more than 800 athletes competing in the Tokyo games in events from American Canoe to Wrestling. Airline dat...
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  • 2021 Memorial Day Weekend MiddleDistance Travel Up from 2019 and 2020 but Total Trips Still Down from 2019
    2021 Memorial Day Weekend Middle-Distance Travel Up from 2019 and 2020, but Total Trips Still Down from 2019
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-06-17
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    Americans took more mid-range trips during the recent 2021 Memorial Day weekend than they did in both 2019 and 2020. Data BTS analyzed indicate that A...
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  • COVID19 Crushes Bikeshare and Escooter Ridership Closes Systems Permanently in Some Cities
    COVID-19 Crushes Bikeshare and E-scooter Ridership, Closes Systems Permanently in Some Cities
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-03-24
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    When the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reduced local travel in March 2020, ridership on America’s bikeshare and e-scooter systems fell sharply. Man...
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  • Bikeshare Ridership Up in March and April BTS Marks National Bike Month with New Gateway to Bicycling Data and Visualizations
    Bikeshare Ridership Up in March and April; BTS Marks National Bike Month with New Gateway to Bicycling Data and Visualizations
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-21
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    Bikeshare ridership increased in March and April of this year over 2020, but May is when the U.S. bicycle community really celebrates two-wheeled, ped...
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  • COVID19 Takes a Bite out of 2020 Passenger Transportation
    COVID-19 Takes a Bite out of 2020 Passenger Transportation
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-02-26
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    In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused sharp reductions in passenger travel of every type. Year-over-year declines in different modes of transportation...
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