Data Spotlights
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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General
- Pandemic Alters Profile of U.S.-North American Trade and Border Crossings
- Low Water on the Mississippi Slows Critical Freight Flows
- Increase in Transportation Consumer Price Index Accounts for Nearly 27% of Year-Over-Year Overall CPI Growth; Lowest Share of Inflation Since February 2021
- Making Transportation Count for 30 Years
- Record Breaking Increases in Motor Fuel Prices in 2022
- U.S. Ports Work through Daunting Challenges to Deliver the Goods
- North American Freight Data Reveals Growth in Unsung Trade Modes
- BTS Freight Transportation Services Index Increases for Third Consecutive Month; What’s a Freight Transportation Services Index?
- Tropical Storm Elsa Makes Landfall in Florida; BTS Map Shows U.S. Ports Affected by 2020 Named Storms
- Bikeshare Ridership Up in March and April; BTS Marks National Bike Month with New Gateway to Bicycling Data and Visualizations
- I-40 Bridge Failure Causes Multimodal Challenges
- On National Maritime Day and Every Day, U.S. Economy Relies on Waterborne Shipping
- Historic Week for American Rail
- America's Passenger Railroad Turns 50!
- Earth Day 2021 Arrives as U.S. Electric Vehicle Sales Continue to Grow
- Explore Transportation History Archived at the National Transportation Library
- Suez Canal Blockage by Ever Given Will Affect U.S. Ports, Businesses, Consumers
- As Daylight Saving Time Approaches, a Good Opportunity to Look at U.S. Time Zones
- Resumed Trade with China and Consumer Activity in Late Quarters Leaves Top U.S. Container Ports with Solid 2020
- Transportation Delivers Harvest from Field and Farm to Family Tables
- Transportation Puts Veterans in the Driver’s Seat…and in the Wheelhouse, the Cockpit, the Railyard, the Transit Garage and the Air Traffic Control Tower
- This year, as every year, there's no trick to how Halloween treats move across America
COVID-specific
- COVID-19 Restrictions Upend U.S. Land Border Crossings
- Taking the Measure of 2021 in Transportation
- Thanksgiving 2021 Air Travel is No Turkey
- COVID-19 Pandemic Drops 2020 Household Spending on Transportation by Nearly 14%
- Twenty Years Later, How Does Post-9/11 Air Travel Compare to the Disruptions of COVID-19?
- COVID-Affected Micromobility Changes Differ by City
- Summer Mobility Heats Up: Passenger Airline Flights, Rail Ridership, and Road Travel Increased Through Mid-July, Delta COVID-19 Variant Threatens Travel Gains
- BTS Mines Multiple Data Sources for Clues to New Transportation Normal
- Navigating the Complexities of COVID-19 Stimulus Funding for Transportation
- 2021 Memorial Day weekend middle-distance travel up from 2020 and 2019, but total trips still down from 2019
- March 2021 Airline Passenger Volume Shows Signs of Aviation Recovery
- Transportation Jobs Recover Slowly after July 2020 Record High 15.7% Unemployment
- COVID-19 Crushes Bikeshare and E-Scooter Ridership
- After a Year of COVID-19, the View from BTS
- Commercial Aviation in 2020: downturn in airline passengers, employment, profits, and flights operated, in the wake of COVID-19, was partially mitigated by increases in air cargo
- Resumed Trade with China and Consumer Activity in Late Quarters Leaves Top U.S. Container Ports with Solid 2020
- COVID-19 Takes a Big Bite out of 2020 Passenger Transportation
- Holiday Travel Season Brings Surge in 50-500-Mile Trips; Other Distances Lag as More People Stay Put This Year
- Thanksgiving week travel: total number of trips down, long distance trips up over last year
- World Statistics Day and the BTS Response to COVID-19
- Overall Travel Down, Long-Distance Travel Up for Labor Day Weekend as Americans Bid Goodbye to COVID-19 Summer
- 4th of July Travel
Aviation
- Thanksgiving 2021 Air Travel is No Turkey
- 5.3 Million Miles to Gold; the U.S. Olympic Team Travels to 2021 Tokyo Games amid a Summer of Air Travel Challenges
- March 2021 Airline Passenger Volume Shows Signs of Aviation Recovery
- Commercial Aviation in 2020: downturn in airline passengers, employment, profits, and flights operated, in the wake of COVID-19, was partially mitigated by increases in air cargo
- Airlines Hit On-Time High in September while Scheduled, Operated Flights Decrease
- August Flight Operations Edge up for Some Airlines, Down for Others
- U.S. Airlines operate 56% more flights in July than June
- Airlines operate more flights in June; on-time performance hits a high
- Flight Cancellations Stabilize in May, but Total Flights Hit Another Record Low
- April's One-Two Punch: Operated Flights Hit Record Low
- March Day-by-Day: How Flight Cancellations Rose