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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: <a href="https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_data_spotlight" target="_blank"> https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_data_spotlight</a> OR <a href="https://doi.org/10.21949/e6w2-7784" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.21949/e6w2-7784</a>.

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  • TransBorder Data MidYear Report 2023
    TransBorder Data Mid-Year Report 2023
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-08-22 | PDF
    The first half (January–June) of 2023 transborder crossing data is available! The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) compiled the tonnage and dollar value of commodities that moved across United States’ land borders with Canada and Mexico.
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  • BTS Celebrates Bus Month with National Transit Map NTM Tutorial
    BTS Celebrates Bus Month with National Transit Map (NTM) Tutorial
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-07-24 | PDF
    The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is honoring #busmonth and the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) monumental #billions4buses by sharing a tutorial using the National Transit Map (NTM) Routes dataset to highlight the importance and role of buses in American society.
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  • National Transportation Library Marks 25th Anniversary
    National Transportation Library Marks 25th Anniversary
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-06-28 | PDF
    June 9, 1998, was an important date in BTS history, as Congress enacted the Transportation Equity Act (TEA) for the 21st Century into law, authorizing the Federal surface transportation programs for highways, highway safety, and transit for a 6-year period from 1998 to 2003. The TEA Restoration Act, enacted on July 22, 1998, quickly provided techni ...
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  • Yearoveryear Declines in Motor Gasoline Prices Dampen Inflation Despite Motor Gasoline Prices Rising 10 from December 2022 to May 2023
    Year-over-year Declines in Motor Gasoline Prices Dampen Inflation Despite Motor Gasoline Prices Rising 10% from December 2022 to May 2023
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-06-26 | PDF
    The retail price for motor gasoline reached an all-time high of $5.03 in June 2022 (Figure 1). As of May 2023, the price for motor gasoline has declined 27% from that record high.
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  • Philadelphia Bridge Collapse Focuses Attention on I95 Corridor Freight Movements
    Philadelphia Bridge Collapse Focuses Attention on I-95 Corridor Freight Movements
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-06-16 | PDF
    The closure of a portion of I-95 in Philadelphia following the bridge collapse on June 11 focused attention on the importance of the I-95 corridor for freight movement. In 2021, trucks carried 21 million tons of freight worth $104 billion between major goods producing and consuming areas to the north and south of the Philadelphia region.
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  • Notable for Bike to Work Week National Spending on Bicycles and Accessories Grew 620 from March 2020 to March 2023 Docked Bikeshare Grew 42 Percent
    Notable for Bike to Work Week: National Spending on Bicycles and Accessories Grew 620% from March 2020 to March 2023; Docked Bikeshare Grew 42% Percent
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-05-19 | PDF
    As bicycling season moves into full gear, total U.S. spending on bicycles and imports of bicycles remain at all time-high levels while ridership on docked bikeshare systems continues to grow.
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  • Number of Alternative Fueling Stations Nearly Doubles Since 2020 EV Charging Leads the Way
    Number of Alternative Fueling Stations Nearly Doubles Since 2020; EV Charging Leads the Way
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-04-17 | PDF
    Alternative energy sources have been at the forefront of strategies to reduce carbon emissions. This is especially true in transportation, the sector responsible for the most greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. The latest data in the BTS National Transportation Atlas Database shows that recent growth in alternative fueling stations for vehicles ha ...
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  • Pandemic Alters Profile of USNorth America Trade and Border Crossings
    Pandemic Alters Profile of U.S.-North America Trade and Border Crossings
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-03-15 | PDF
    Manufacturing and logistics sectors across North America are highly linked and interdependent. America’s land borders with Canada and Mexico are the busiest and most economically vital conduits for North American supply chains, with about $3 billion in daily cross-border trade.
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  • History of Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time DST
    History of Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST)
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-01-17 | PDF
    Before the establishment of time zones in 1883, there were more than 144 local times in North America. The resulting time differences between adjacent towns and cities were not critical when it took days to travel from place to place. With the proliferation of railroads, faster travel became possible across large geographies, and travelers could so ...
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  • Low Water on the Mississippi Slows Critical Freight Flows
    Low Water on the Mississippi Slows Critical Freight Flows
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-11-16 | PDF
    The Mississippi River provides a vital link for freight movement in the United States. In 2020, the river carried more than half of the 165.5 million tons that moved between the 12 states touching the Upper Mississippi System1 and Louisiana (figure 1). The percentage of freight carried by the river to Louisiana is much higher for some states: 92 pe ...
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  • Increase in Transportation Consumer Price Index Accounts for Nearly 27 of YearOverYear Overall CPI Growth Lowest Share of Inflation Since February 2021
    Increase in Transportation Consumer Price Index Accounts for Nearly 27% of Year-Over-Year Overall CPI Growth; Lowest Share of Inflation Since February 2021
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-11-02 | PDF
    When the prices of goods and services rise, inflation causes concern because it erodes consumers’ purchasing power. Inflation includes the prices faced by consumers for transportation, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for items such as motor vehicles, gasoline, and airfares. It also includes the transportation costs, as measured in the ...
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  • Record Breaking Increases in Motor Fuel Prices in 2022
    Record Breaking Increases in Motor Fuel Prices in 2022
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-08-18 | PDF
    From January to June 2022, the price of regular motor gasoline rose 49% and the price of diesel fuel rose slightly more at 55%. Fuel prices have risen since declining in early 2020 during the economic recession and the period when many states adopted stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 (figure 1). Fuel prices declined from June to July 2022 ...
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  • COVID19 Restrictions Upend US Land Border Crossings in 2021
    COVID-19 Restrictions Upend U.S. Land Border Crossings in 2021
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-02-02 | PDF
    One impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been stricter crossing restrictions at international borders. This affects freight, workers, and tourism. In the U.S., incoming crossings were limited to freight and essential travel, which caused a sharp decline in the number of vehicles and pedestrians entering the U.S. from Canada and Mexico. The number of ...
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  • US Ports Work Through Daunting Challenges to Deliver the Goods
    U.S. Ports Work Through Daunting Challenges to Deliver the Goods
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-24 | PDF
    With a perfect storm of existing capacity limits, rapid demand increases, and the labor shortages from initial COVID-19 pandemic reductions, container ports are facing major challenges in moving cargo. As the chart below shows, since late 2020, U.S. container ports have been successfully bringing in goods at a much stronger pace than before the pan ...
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  • Taking the Measure of Transportation in 2021
    Taking the Measure of Transportation in 2021
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-03 | PDF
    At the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, we produced a wide variety of charts and tables to understand transportation and its consequences in 2021. We selected three of those measures to highlight the year in transportation: Daily Trips, Domestic Flight Departures, and the Freight Transportation Services Index. If they tell one overall story for ...
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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
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-12-06 | PDF
    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 been about airlines being relatively well-prepared for the Thanksgiving air travel surge. And a surge it was; the Sunday after Thanksgiving was America’s busiest air travel day since the onset of the ...
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  • Tropical Storm Elsa Makes Landfall in Florida BTS Map Shows US Ports Affected by 2020 Named Storms
    Tropical Storm Elsa Makes Landfall in Florida; BTS Map Shows U.S. Ports Affected by 2020 Named Storms
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-10-27 | PDF
    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 expecting above-average storm activity during the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. In addition to threatening lives, named storms can disrupt American commerce. A new map from BTS shows 23 major U.S. ...
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  • COVID19 Pandemic Drops 2020 Household Spending on Transportation by Nearly 14
    COVID-19 Pandemic Drops 2020 Household Spending on Transportation by Nearly 14%
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-09-23 | PDF
    With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 and the arrival of lockdowns and other protective measures, household spending on transportation declined 13.6% from 2019 to 2020. As Americans drove fewer commutes and took fewer trips, the average U.S. household spent $9,645 moving around in their everyday lives in 2020, dropping from $10,960 ...
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  • Twenty Years Later How Does Post911 Air Travel Compare to the Disruptions of COVID19
    Twenty Years Later, How Does Post-9/11 Air Travel Compare to the Disruptions of COVID-19
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-09-10 | PDF
    In December 2005, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics published a report on “Airline Travel Since 9/11.” It came four years after the devastating attack caused a tragic loss of life and a significant contraction in U.S. air travel. The 20-year anniversary of 9/11 coincides with another devastating event, the COVID-19 pandemic, that is also affe ...
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  • COVIDAffected Micromobility Changes Differ by City
    COVID-Affected Micromobility Changes Differ by City
    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-09-01 | PDF
    For bikeshare and e-scooter systems, responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been more localized than national. BTS’s recently updated Bikeshare and E-Scooter Systems in the U.S. dashboard illustrates three facts that challenge a national pattern: a decrease in the number of cities served by bikeshare and e-scooter platforms, a countervailing incre ...
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