BTS Data Spotlight
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://doi.org/10.21949/e6w2-7784.
- Other 2
- Statistical Report 76
- 2021 Olympics 1
- Access 1
- Affordability 1
- Agricultural products 1
- Air cargo 2
- Airlines 7
- Airport operations 2
- Air transportation 3
- Air travel 12
- Alternate fuels 1
- Anchoring 1
- Anniversary 1
- Archives 1
- Arrivals and departures 1
- Average daily traffic 1
- Bicycles 4
- Bicycle travel 3
- Bike and ride 1
- Bike docking 1
- Bikeshare 3
- Bikeways 1
- Border crossings 8
- Bridges 3
- Bus transit 1
- Canal operations 1
- Canals 2
- Capital investments 1
- Cargo handling 2
- Cargo ships 3
- Certification 1
- Cities 1
- Civil aviation 1
- Climate change 1
- Climate change mitigation 1
- Collapse 2
- Commercial transportation 2
- Commodities 7
- Commodity flow 9
- Communicable diseases 1
- Commuting 1
- Computer aided instruction 1
- Connected vehicles 1
- Conservation 1
- Construction 1
- Construction management 1
- Consumer Price Index 1
- Consumers 1
- Consumption 1
- Container handling 1
- Containerships 1
- Container terminals 1
- Continuity of operations 1
- Cost estimating 1
- Cost indexes 2
- Costs 4
- COVID-19 34
- Cracking 1
- Crashes 1
- Critical depth 1
- Cruise ships 1
- Data 13
- Data analysis 1
- Data collection 1
- Daylight saving time 2
- Decision making 1
- Delays 2
- Delivery service 1
- Detours 1
- Digital maps 1
- Disaster relief 1
- Disaster resilience 2
- Disasters and emergency operations 2
- Distance 1
- Docking station 1
- E-scooter 1
- E-scooters 1
- Earth Day 1
- Economic factors 2
- Education 1
- Electric bicycles 1
- Electric vehicle charging 2
- Electric vehicles 4
- Elementary school students 1
- Emergencies 1
- Employed 1
- Employment 2
- Energy consumption 1
- Environmental impact analysis 2
- Environmental impacts 2
- Environmental quality 1
- Estimates 1
- Expenditures 1
- Expenses 2
- Exports 2
- Failure 2
- Federal government 1
- Federal government agencies 1
- Females 1
- First mile and last mile 1
- Flight characteristics 1
- Flight delays 3
- Flight time 1
- Food 2
- Freight and passenger handling 1
- Freight and passenger traffic 1
- Freight handling 5
- Freight service 2
- Freight traffic 6
- Freight traffic measurement 2
- Freight transportation 8
- Fuel conservation 1
- Fuel taxes 2
- Gender 2
- Government funding 1
- Greenhouse gases 1
- Harbors 1
- Haul distance 1
- Highway bridges 1
- History 1
- Holidays 10
- Households 4
- Hurricanes 1
- Imports 3
- Inflation 3
- Information, data, and knowledge 3
- Information dissemination 1
- Infrastructure 1
- Intelligent transportation systems 1
- Intercity transportation 1
- Intercity travel 1
- International borders 5
- International trade 5
- International transportation 2
- Jobs 1
- Labor force 2
- Labor market 1
- Lakes 1
- Laws and legislation 2
- Legislation 1
- Libraries 1
- Library operations 1
- Low income groups 1
- Maps 5
- Merchant vessels 1
- Micromobility 2
- Military personnel 1
- Motor fuels 2
- Multimodal transportation 1
- Noise 1
- Obstructions (Navigation) 1
- Oil tankers 1
- Olympics 1
- On time performance 4
- Operations 1
- Outreach 1
- Owner operators 1
- Passengers 1
- Passenger screening 3
- Passenger ships 1
- Passenger traffic 1
- Passenger trains 2
- Passenger transportation 4
- Passenger vehicles 1
- Passenger volume 1
- Persons by socioeconomic levels 1
- Pipelines 1
- Port capacity 1
- Port operations 3
- Ports 7
- Ports of entry 1
- Port traffic 1
- Processed foods 1
- Public transit 3
- Rail (Railroads) 1
- Railroad cars 1
- Railroad construction 1
- Railroad operations 1
- Railroads 2
- Railroad safety 1
- Railroad stations 1
- Railroad transportation 1
- Rail transit stations 1
- Recreation 1
- Renewable energy sources 1
- Repositories 1
- Research 1
- Revenues 1
- Ridership 7
- Ridesharing 1
- River ports 1
- Rivers 1
- Routes and routing 1
- Rural areas 1
- Schedules and scheduling 7
- Scooters 3
- Seaports 1
- Self-employment 1
- Service disruption 5
- Shared mobility 3
- Shipping 4
- Ships 2
- Shopping 1
- Spending 1
- Statistical analysis 41
- Statistics 10
- Storms 1
- Streamflow 1
- Street closure 1
- Students 1
- Summer 1
- Summer Olympics 1
- Supply chain management 7
- Sustainable development 1
- Sustainable transportation 1
- Tanker shipping 1
- Taxicab drivers 1
- Terrorism 1
- Time 1
- Time alteration 1
- Time duration 1
- Time zones 2
- Tokyo Olympics 1
- Tonnage 1
- Traffic incidents 1
- Traffic regulations 1
- Traffic safety 1
- Traffic speed 1
- Training 1
- Transportation 14
- Transportation careers 2
- Transportation departments 4
- Transportation modes 2
- Transportation safety 1
- Travel 4
- Travel behavior 13
- Travel costs 1
- Travel demand 7
- Travel patterns 3
- Travel time 1
- Trip length 7
- Trip purpose 1
- Trucking 2
- Types of ports 1
- Unemployment 3
- Vehicle sharing 6
- Warehousing 1
- Warehousing and storage businesses 1
- Water table 1
- Water traffic 1
- Water transportation 1
- Waterways 1
- Workforce 2
- 2021 Olympics (1)
- Access (1)
- Affordability (1)
- Agricultural products (1)
- Air cargo (2)
- Airlines (7)
- Airport operations (2)
- Air transportation (3)
- Air travel (12)
- Alternate fuels (1)
- Anchoring (1)
- Anniversary (1)
- Archives (1)
- Arrivals and departures (1)
- Average daily traffic (1)
- Bicycles (4)
- Bicycle travel (3)
- Bike and ride (1)
- Bike docking (1)
- Bikeshare (3)
- Bikeways (1)
- Border crossings (8)
- Bridges (3)
- Bus transit (1)
- Canal operations (1)
- Canals (2)
- Capital investments (1)
- Cargo handling (2)
- Cargo ships (3)
- Certification (1)
- Cities (1)
- Civil aviation (1)
- Climate change (1)
- Climate change mitigation (1)
- Collapse (2)
- Commercial transportation (2)
- Commodities (7)
- Commodity flow (9)
- Communicable diseases (1)
- Commuting (1)
- Computer aided instruction (1)
- Connected vehicles (1)
- Conservation (1)
- Construction (1)
- Construction management (1)
- Consumer Price Index (1)
- Consumers (1)
- Consumption (1)
- Container handling (1)
- Containerships (1)
- Container terminals (1)
- Continuity of operations (1)
- Cost estimating (1)
- Cost indexes (2)
- Costs (4)
- COVID-19 (34)
- Cracking (1)
- Crashes (1)
- Critical depth (1)
- Cruise ships (1)
- Data (13)
- Data analysis (1)
- Data collection (1)
- Daylight saving time (2)
- Decision making (1)
- Delays (2)
- Delivery service (1)
- Detours (1)
- Digital maps (1)
- Disaster relief (1)
- Disaster resilience (2)
- Disasters and emergency operations (2)
- Distance (1)
- Docking station (1)
- E-scooter (1)
- E-scooters (1)
- Earth Day (1)
- Economic factors (2)
- Education (1)
- Electric bicycles (1)
- Electric vehicle charging (2)
- Electric vehicles (4)
- Elementary school students (1)
- Emergencies (1)
- Employed (1)
- Employment (2)
- Energy consumption (1)
- Environmental impact analysis (2)
- Environmental impacts (2)
- Environmental quality (1)
- Estimates (1)
- Expenditures (1)
- Expenses (2)
- Exports (2)
- Failure (2)
- Federal government (1)
- Federal government agencies (1)
- Females (1)
- First mile and last mile (1)
- Flight characteristics (1)
- Flight delays (3)
- Flight time (1)
- Food (2)
- Freight and passenger handling (1)
- Freight and passenger traffic (1)
- Freight handling (5)
- Freight service (2)
- Freight traffic (6)
- Freight traffic measurement (2)
- Freight transportation (8)
- Fuel conservation (1)
- Fuel taxes (2)
- Gender (2)
- Government funding (1)
- Greenhouse gases (1)
- Harbors (1)
- Haul distance (1)
- Highway bridges (1)
- History (1)
- Holidays (10)
- Households (4)
- Hurricanes (1)
- Imports (3)
- Inflation (3)
- Information, data, and knowledge (3)
- Information dissemination (1)
- Infrastructure (1)
- Intelligent transportation systems (1)
- Intercity transportation (1)
- Intercity travel (1)
- International borders (5)
- International trade (5)
- International transportation (2)
- Jobs (1)
- Labor force (2)
- Labor market (1)
- Lakes (1)
- Laws and legislation (2)
- Legislation (1)
- Libraries (1)
- Library operations (1)
- Low income groups (1)
- Maps (5)
- Merchant vessels (1)
- Micromobility (2)
- Military personnel (1)
- Motor fuels (2)
- Multimodal transportation (1)
- Noise (1)
- Obstructions (Navigation) (1)
- Oil tankers (1)
- Olympics (1)
- On time performance (4)
- Operations (1)
- Outreach (1)
- Owner operators (1)
- Passengers (1)
- Passenger screening (3)
- Passenger ships (1)
- Passenger traffic (1)
- Passenger trains (2)
- Passenger transportation (4)
- Passenger vehicles (1)
- Passenger volume (1)
- Persons by socioeconomic levels (1)
- Pipelines (1)
- Port capacity (1)
- Port operations (3)
- Ports (7)
- Ports of entry (1)
- Port traffic (1)
- Processed foods (1)
- Public transit (3)
- Rail (Railroads) (1)
- Railroad cars (1)
- Railroad construction (1)
- Railroad operations (1)
- Railroads (2)
- Railroad safety (1)
- Railroad stations (1)
- Railroad transportation (1)
- Rail transit stations (1)
- Recreation (1)
- Renewable energy sources (1)
- Repositories (1)
- Research (1)
- Revenues (1)
- Ridership (7)
- Ridesharing (1)
- River ports (1)
- Rivers (1)
- Routes and routing (1)
- Rural areas (1)
- Schedules and scheduling (7)
- Scooters (3)
- Seaports (1)
- Self-employment (1)
- Service disruption (5)
- Shared mobility (3)
- Shipping (4)
- Ships (2)
- Shopping (1)
- Spending (1)
- Statistical analysis (41)
- Statistics (10)
- Storms (1)
- Streamflow (1)
- Street closure (1)
- Students (1)
- Summer (1)
- Summer Olympics (1)
- Supply chain management (7)
- Sustainable development (1)
- Sustainable transportation (1)
- Tanker shipping (1)
- Taxicab drivers (1)
- Terrorism (1)
- Time (1)
- Time alteration (1)
- Time duration (1)
- Time zones (2)
- Tokyo Olympics (1)
- Tonnage (1)
- Traffic incidents (1)
- Traffic regulations (1)
- Traffic safety (1)
- Traffic speed (1)
- Training (1)
- Transportation (14)
- Transportation careers (2)
- Transportation departments (4)
- Transportation modes (2)
- Transportation safety (1)
- Travel (4)
- Travel behavior (13)
- Travel costs (1)
- Travel demand (7)
- Travel patterns (3)
- Travel time (1)
- Trip length (7)
- Trip purpose (1)
- Trucking (2)
- Types of ports (1)
- Unemployment (3)
- Vehicle sharing (6)
- Warehousing (1)
- Warehousing and storage businesses (1)
- Water table (1)
- Water traffic (1)
- Water transportation (1)
- Waterways (1)
- Workforce (2)
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2021-09-10Abstract:In December 2005, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics published a report on “Airline Travel Since 9/11.” It came four years after the devastat...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-08-06Abstract:Americans took 2.8 billion fewer total trips during the 4th of July week this year than they did in 2019. That overall drop is supported by similar de...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2021-04-12Abstract:With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate in the transportation and warehousing sector rose above the total U.S. unemployment rat...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2021-10-27Abstract:Last week, Tropical Storm Elsa became the first named storm in 2021 to make landfall in the U.S. U.S. ports on the Gulf and East Coasts are once again...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-11-25Abstract:The COVID-constrained 2020 summer air travel season wound down in September, ending three consecutive months of increases in the number of domestic fl...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2021-03-11Abstract:In February and March 2020, America’s top maritime ports experienced a downturn in container activity as COVID-19 hit the nation. However, the resum...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-09-11Abstract:Overall, Americans took 2.8 billion fewer total trips (4.6 billion) during the Labor Day weekend this year than they did in 2019 (7.4 billion). That o...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-05-20Abstract:The charts and Excel table below show the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as the month of March transpires. The March 2020 flight cancellation rate �...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2021-09-23Abstract:With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and the arrival of lockdowns and other protective measures, household spending on transportation...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-06-26Abstract:The nation’s airlines drastically overhauled their operations in April in the face of the COVID-19 spread. The 10 marketing network carriers schedul...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-09-23Abstract:After previously setting new lows in flights operated for two months running, U.S. airlines were unlikely to set another record low in June, and they ...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-08-21Abstract:In May, U.S. passenger airline flight schedules caught up with the diminished demand inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic. That ended a 2-month scramble...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-11-13Abstract:In August, U.S. airlines extended their recent streak of increasing the number of domestic flights operated overall. The more than 394,000 flights in ...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-10-30Abstract:Those practicing safe trick-or-treating this year have good reason to be excited this Halloween. According to candystore.com, a candy retailer with cl...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-11-10Abstract:The transportation industry and transportation jobs within other industries provide veterans re-entering civilian life with many career options that l...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-11-18Abstract:It is customary in November to express thanks for the bounty of the American harvest. That harvest is a major portion of the 3.3 billion tons of agric...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2020-12-09Abstract:The Thanksgiving 2020 travel data are in, and they indicate that the total number of trips taken this Thanksgiving was down significantly from 2019, b...
- :United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics2025-04-14Abstract: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...
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