U.S. flag An official website of the United States government.
Official websites use .gov

A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS

A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

BTS Data Spotlight

rosaP Repository & Open Science Access Portal

Data spotlights represent data and statistics from a specific period of time. As individual spotlights are static stories, they do not reflect ongoing data collection. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_data_spotlight OR https://doi.org/10.21949/e6w2-7784.

(1)
(11)
(17)
(6)
(29)
(14)
0 of 6
(2)
(76)
0 of 2
(78)
0 of 1
(78)
0 of 1
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(7)
(2)
(3)
(12)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(4)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(1)
(8)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(2)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(2)
(7)
(9)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(4)
(34)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(13)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(4)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(5)
(2)
(6)
(2)
(8)
(1)
(2)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(10)
(4)
(1)
(3)
(3)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(5)
(5)
(2)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(5)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(4)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(4)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(7)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(7)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(7)
(3)
(1)
(1)
(5)
(3)
(4)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(41)
(10)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(7)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(14)
(2)
(4)
(2)
(1)
(4)
(13)
(1)
(7)
(3)
(1)
(7)
(1)
(2)
(1)
(3)
(6)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(1)
(2)
0 of 252
Showing 41 - 60 of 78 results
  • North American Freight Data Reveals Growth in Unsung Trade Modes
    North American Freight Data Reveals Growth in Unsung Trade Modes
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-08-25 | PDF
    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 out of West Coast ports. One aspect of U.S. trade attracting less attention is North American freight flows, which have increased since the pandemic lows we saw in the spring of 2020. Trucking and rail ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-08-11 | PDF
    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 airline flights had also risen, with both measures approaching pre-pandemic levels. Amtrak ridership was also closing the difference from its pre-COVID normal. As America turns its full attention to th ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-07-30 | PDF
    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 data the Bureau of Transportation Statistics collects tells us that just getting the athletes to Japan is an Olympian feat in its own right. From aircraft and labor shortages, to weather and fires, to th ...
  • 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?
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-07-22 | PDF
    Freight is an important part of the U.S. economy. In 2017, the most recent year of available data, American manufacturers, wholesalers, and other industries shipped nearly 12.5 billion tons of goods with a total value of more than $14.5 trillion. The Freight Transportation Services Index (Freight TSI) is a measure of the amount of freight carried b ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-07-07 | PDF
    When combined with pulse surveys and other data, measuring daily travel patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic can help identify trends that might become a “new normal” in post-pandemic transportation in the U.S. For example, travel data, as in the chart below, shows a gradual increase in short trips from January to April in 2021 (green line) that b ...
  • Navigating the Complexities of COVID19 Stimulus Funding for Transportation
    Navigating the Complexities of COVID-19 Stimulus Funding for Transportation
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-06-28 | PDF
    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 transportation; in April 2021, the industry was still down 74,000 employees (15%) from pre-pandemic April 2019. Urban rail transit ridership also remains low; in April 2021, ridership was still 276 million trips l ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-06-17 | PDF
    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 Americans took 6.1 billion total trips over the 2021 Memorial Day weekend, the traditional kickoff weekend for summer travel. That’s a 13% increase over 2020’s 5.4 billion trips. Although that increase ...
  • March 2021 Airline Passenger Volume Shows Signs of Aviation Recovery
    March 2021 Airline Passenger Volume Shows Signs of Aviation Recovery
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-06-01 | PDF
    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-March increase of 14.8 million passengers represents a larger-than-normal jump of 60%, likely reflecting a gradual recovery from COVID-19 as well as the usual seasonal factors such as the end of winter and s ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-21 | PDF
    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, pedal-powered transportation with National Bike Month. The celebration peaks May 17-23 for Bike To Work Week 2021, and Friday, May 21, is Bike To Work Day. To commemorate Bike Month, BTS presents updated ...
  • I40 Bridge Failure Causes Multimodal Challenges
    I-40 Bridge Failure Causes Multimodal Challenges
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-17 | PDF
    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 DOT closed the bridge between Memphis, TN, and West Memphis, AR, to all traffic. Vehicles are being detoured to the I-55 bridge three miles away, a detour that is creating traffic delays approaching t ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-12 | PDF
    In 1933, Congress declared National Maritime Day to commemorate the first transatlantic crossing under steam propulsion. BTS honors Maritime Day by observing the importance of waterborne shipping in U.S. international trade and in Americans’ everyday lives.
  • Historic Week for Rail in America
    Historic Week for Rail in America
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-05-05 | PDF
    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 completed the rail network from Omaha to Sacramento. The one-two punch of these auspicious anniversaries reminds us of the significant role played by rail in the development of the United States.
  • Amtrak Turns 50
    Amtrak Turns 50!
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-04-27 | PDF
    On May 1, 1971, the transportation service we know as Amtrak was launched when its first train rolled out of New York City bound for Philadelphia. The National Railroad Passenger Corporation --Amtrak’s original corporate name-- consolidated 20 different private passenger railroads into a single national network. Today, Amtrak serves more than 500 d ...
  • Earth Day 2021 Arrives as US Electric Vehicle Sales Continue to Grow
    Earth Day 2021 Arrives as U.S. Electric Vehicle Sales Continue to Grow
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-04-22 | PDF
    To celebrate Earth Day 2021, BTS has highlighted recent trends in Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption by American drivers. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation activity emits more greenhouse gases in the U.S (29% of total emissions in 2019) than any other sector of our economy. With available technologies like electric-drive ...
  • Transportation Jobs Recover Slowly After July 2020 Record High 157 Unemployment
    Transportation Jobs Recover Slowly After July 2020 Record High 15.7% Unemployment
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-04-12 | PDF
    With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate in the transportation and warehousing sector rose above the total U.S. unemployment rate in March 2020. The sector saw a peak unemployment rate of 15.7% in July 2020 – that was 5.2 percentage points above the overall U.S. unemployment rate at the time.
  • Explore Transportation History Archived at the National Transportation Library
    Explore Transportation History Archived at the National Transportation Library
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-04-05 | PDF
    From congested carriage traffic in New York City to automated platoons of connected vehicles, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics has a one-stop shop where you can pursue your interest in transportation past, present, and future. The National Transportation Library (NTL) is one of the four officially designated national libraries in the United ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-04-01 | PDF
    The temporary blockage of the Suez Canal by the grounded container ship Ever Given affects cargo movement well beyond the Mediterranean and Red Seas. As of 9 PM (UTC +2), Monday, March 29, the goods on the 51 container ships that awaited canal access are delayed getting to the businesses and people who need them. Of those, 25 are coming from or goi ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-03-24 | PDF
    When the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reduced local travel in March 2020, ridership on America’s bikeshare and e-scooter systems fell sharply. Many systems suspended operations. Some systems closed permanently. One year later, year-over-year ridership numbers on the remaining systems are markedly low.
  • After a Year of COVID19 the View from BTS
    After a Year of COVID-19, the View from BTS
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-03-16 | PDF
    A year ago this week, the COVID-19 pandemic began disrupting American households, businesses, and the nation’s transportation system on a large scale. Like many office-based organizations, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) went to full-time remote telework. Since then, BTS has responded with more than 60 releases of new products with an ...
  • 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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-03-11 | PDF
    The clocks in many American households will be set an hour ahead this weekend, signaling the arrival of Daylight Saving Time (DST). This “Spring Forward” tradition is observed across the nation, except for two states (Arizona—exclusive of the Navajo Nation—and Hawaii) and the five major U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of ...
41 - 60 / 78