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  • 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
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-12-06
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    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...
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  • 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
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-11-22
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    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�...
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  • Transportation Statistics for Earth Day
    Transportation Statistics for Earth Day
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-04-22
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    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 environme...
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  • Counting the Transportation Workforce Nearly 1 Million SelfEmployed
    Counting the Transportation Workforce: Nearly 1 Million Self-Employed
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-07-01
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    Counting the transportation workforce from the industry perspective could lead to different estimates than those from the occupational perspective. Wo...
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  • Docked Bikeshare Ridership Increase in 2023 on Most but Not All Systems
    Docked Bikeshare Ridership Increase in 2023 on Most but Not All Systems
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-06-05
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    Most but not all docked bikeshare systems experienced an increase in ridership in 2023. In 2023, ridership declined 3% on BlueBikes (serving the Bosto...
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  • BTS Data Reveals Longterm Trend Emerging in North American Freight Trucking
    BTS Data Reveals Long-term Trend Emerging in North American Freight Trucking
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-12-20
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    According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American freight data, a long-term trend is emerging between U.S., Canada, and Mexico freig...
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  • US Border Freight Transportation Resiliency
    U.S. Border Freight Transportation Resiliency
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-06-07
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    In 2023, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) participated in a data-based examination of the U.S.- Canada border with Transport Canada. The ...
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  • 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
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-12-03
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    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 port...
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  • Mapping Out Success A BTS Field Trip
    Mapping Out Success: A BTS Field Trip
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-02-24
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    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 fro...
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  • Information About the Port of Baltimore
    Information About the Port of Baltimore
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-04-05
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    In response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on the morning of March 26, 2024, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) provides informat...
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  • History of Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time DST
    History of Time Zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST)
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-01-17
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    Before the establishment of time zones in 1883, there were more than 144 local times in North America. The resulting time differences between adjacent...
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  • 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
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2024-05-01
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    Higher costs reduce what can be bought with the money allocated by transportation spending bills. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (P...
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  • Low Water on the Mississippi Slows Critical Freight Flows
    Low Water on the Mississippi Slows Critical Freight Flows
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-11-16
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    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 ...
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  • Taking the Measure of Transportation in 2021
    Taking the Measure of Transportation in 2021
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-03
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    At the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, we produced a wide variety of charts and tables to understand transportation and its consequences in 2021....
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  • Record Breaking Increases in Motor Fuel Prices in 2022
    Record Breaking Increases in Motor Fuel Prices in 2022
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-08-18
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    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...
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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
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-01-24
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    With a perfect storm of existing capacity limits, rapid demand increases, and the labor shortages from initial COVID-19 pandemic reductions, container...
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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
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-11-02
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    When the prices of goods and services rise, inflation causes concern because it erodes consumers’ purchasing power. Inflation includes the prices fa...
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  • COVID19 Restrictions Upend US Land Border Crossings in 2021
    COVID-19 Restrictions Upend U.S. Land Border Crossings in 2021
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2022-02-02
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    One impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been stricter crossing restrictions at international borders. This affects freight, workers, and tourism. In t...
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  • Making Transportation Count for 30 Years
    Making Transportation Count for 30 Years
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2023-10-28
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    In 1990, the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) “Statement of National Transportation Policy” committed DOT to…“…develop more effective ...
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  • Amtrak Turns 50
    Amtrak Turns 50!
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    United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
    2021-04-27
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    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...
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