Employment in transportation and related occupations

Economic concepts related to employment in transportation

Light trucks include trucks with up to 14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, including minivans and sport utility vehicles. Prior to the 2003 Benchmark Revision, light trucks were up to 10,000 pounds. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis releases auto and truck sales data, which are used in the preparation of estimates of personal consumption expenditures.

Historic data updated on 07/14/2023.

Bikeshare ridership by system, year, month, and day for bikeshare systems with docking stations. Data available by month starting in January 2019. Months are rearranged to include the same number of days of the week across years (see below). Data designed to show the impacts of COVID-19 on bikeshare ridership as featured at https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/dockedbikeshare-COVID/

Ridership data not available for all docked bikeshare systems. Only docked bikeshare systems with ridership data shown. Some systems included in the data permit users to leave a bicycle outside of a docking station; these trips are not counted. Trips defined as rides from point A to B. If user makes trip from B to A on same day, counted as a second trip. Trips labeled as round trips in Metro Bike Share and Indego trip files counted as 2 trips. Trips with no trip time are not counted. Trips with no start station identifier and/or end station id are not counted in totals. Trips shorter than 1 minute or greater than 2 hours excluded. Days aligned to include the same days of weeks in 2019 and 2020. Days included in each month are as follows:

Days included in each month are as follows:
Jan 2019 (01/02/19 through 02/02/19); Jan 2020 (01/01/20 through 02/01/20); Jan 2021 (12/30/20 through 01/30/21); Jan 2022 (12/29/2021 through 01/29/22)
Feb 2019 (02/03/19 through 03/02/19); Feb 2020 (02/02/20 through 02/29/20); Feb 2021 (01/31/21 through 02/27/21); Feb 2022 (01/30/22 through 02/26/22)
Mar 2019 (03/03/19 through 03/30/19); Mar 2020 (03/01/20 through 03/28/20); Mar 2021 (02/28/21 through 03/29/21); Mar 2022 (02/27/22) through 03/26/22)
Apr 2019 (03/31/19 through 05/04/19); Apr 2020 (03/29/20 through 05/02/20); Apr 2021 (03/28/21 through 05/01/21); Apr 2022 (03/27/22 through 04/30/22)
May 2019 (05/05/19 through 06/01/19); May 2020 (05/03/20 through 05/30/20); May 2021 (05/02/21 through 05/29/21); May 2022 (05/01/22 through 05/28/22)
Jun 2019 (06/02/19 through 06/29/19); Jun 2020 (05/31/20 through 06/27/20); Jun 2021 (05/30/21 through 06/26/21); Jun 2022 (05/29/22 through 06/25/22)
Jul 2019 (06/30/19 through 08/03/19); Jul 2020 (06/28/20 through 08/01/20); Jul 2021 (06/27/21 through 07/31/21); Jul (06/26/22 through 07/30/22)
Aug 2019 (08/04/19 through 08/31/19); Aug 2020 (08/02/20 through 08/29/20); Aug 2021 (08/01/21 through 08/28/21); Aug (07/31/22 through 08/27/22)
Sep 2019 (09/01/19 through 10/05/19); Sep 2020 (08/30/20 through 10/03/20); Sep 2021 (08/29/21 through 10/02/21); Sep 2022 (08/28/22 through 10/01/22)
Oct 2019 (10/06/19 through 11/02/19); Oct 2020 (10/04/20 through 10/31/20); Oct 2021 (10/03/21 through 10/30/21); Oct 2022 (10/02/22 through 10/29/22)
Nov 2019 (11/03/19 through 11/30/19); Nov 2020 (11/01/20 through 11/28/20); Nov 2021 (10/31/21 through 11/27/21); Nov 2022 (10/30/22 through 11/26/22)
Dec 2019 (12/01/19 through 12/31/19); Dec 2020 (11/29/20 through 12/29/20); Dec 2021 (11/28/21 through 12/28/21); Dec 2022 (11/27/22 through 12/27/22)

Trips beginning on 12/31/2019 but ending on 01/01/2020 not included in totals.

Interactive map application featuring data: https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/dockedbikeshare-COVID/

Release Note

BTS is withholding the scheduled release of the passenger and combined indexes for January. The passenger index is a statistical estimate of airline passenger travel and other components based on historical trends up to December 2019. As a result, the estimates have yet to fully account for the impact of the coronavirus. Air freight is also a statistical estimate. Since air freight makes up a smaller part of the freight index, the freight TSI is being released as scheduled.

Description

Statisticians use the process of seasonal-adjustment to uncover trends in data. Monthly data, for instance, are influenced by the number of days and the number of weekends in a month as well as by the timing of holidays and seasonal activity. These influences make it difficult to see underlying changes in the data. Statisticians use seasonal adjustment to control for these influences.

Controlling of seasonal influences allows measurement of real monthly changes; short and long term patterns of growth or decline; and turning points. Data for one month can be compared to data for any other month in the series and the data series can be ranked to find high and low points. Any observed differences are “real” differences; that is, they are differences brought about by changes in the data and not brought about by a change in the number of days or weekends in the month, the occurrence or non-occurrence of a holiday, or seasonal activity.

Transportation costs faced by producers

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics calculates this index based on the American Trucking Association’s monthly Truck Tonnage Index.

Historic data updated on 07/14/2023.

Bikeshare ridership by system, year, and month for bikeshare systems with docking stations. Data available by month starting in January 2019. Months are rearranged to include the same number of days of the week across years (see below). Data designed to show the impacts of COVID-19 on bikeshare ridership as featured at https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/dockedbikeshare-COVID/

Ridership data not available for all docked bikeshare systems. Only docked bikeshare systems with ridership data shown. Some systems included in the data permit users to leave a bicycle outside of a docking station; these trips are indicated by the trip type. Trips defined as rides from point A to B. If user makes trip from B to A on same day, counted as a second trip. Trips labeled as round trips in Metro Bike Share and Indego trip files counted as 2 trips. Trips with no trip time are not counted. For trips starting and ending at a docking station or on systems where only docked trips are permitted, trips with no start station identifier and/or end station id are not counted in totals. Trips shorter than 1 minute or greater than 2 hours excluded. Days aligned to include the same days of weeks in 2019 and 2020. Days included in each month are as follows:

Days included in each month can be found in the attachment (https://data.bts.gov/api/views/6cfa-ipzd/files/36fde1b8-57c3-4d31-b9dc-bbc896ba346e?download=true&filename=days_included_in_docked_bikeshare_monthly_summaries.xlsx)

Trips beginning on 12/31/2019 but ending on 01/01/2020 not included in totals.

Data visualizations available at: https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Summary-of-Docked-Bikeshare-Trips-by-System-and-Ot/7fgy-2zkf/

Employed persons include people aged 16 years and older in the civilian noninstitutional population who did any work at all as paid employees; worked in their own business, profession, or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of the family; and all those who were not working but who had jobs or businesses from which they were temporarily absent. The Bureau of Labor Statistics produces industry estimates of nonfarm payroll employment as part of the Current Population Survey.

This page shows BLS-CPS data of monthly employment in transportation and warehousing sector by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity.