Data and visualizations showing Airport and Airway Trust Fund and Harbor Maintenance and Inland Waterways Trust Fund balance.

The 1995 American Travel Survey (ATS) was conducted by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to obtain information about the long-distance travel of persons living in the United States. The survey collected quarterly information related to the characteristics of persons, households, and trips of 100 miles or more for approximately 80,000 American households. The ATS data provide detailed information on state-to-state travel as well as travel to and from metropolitan areas by mode of transportation. Data are also available for subgroups defined in terms of characteristics related to travel, such as trip purpose, age, family type, income, and a variety of related characteristics. The data can be analyzed at the regional, state, metropolitan area, and county level. NOTE: In 2001, the National Household Travel Survey was carried out. This new survey is a combined Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) and ATS. Visit the National Household Travel Survey web site << https://nhts.ornl.gov/ >> for more details.

2022 Year-to-Date based on State and Port TransBorder Freight Data - January 2006 to July 2021

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration releases data on highway fatalities in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). Data for the most recent year are preliminary estimates.

Other transit modes include demand response, demand response-taxi, vanpool, and ferryboat. The Federal Highway Administration estimates monthly transit ridership, released as part of the National Transit Database. Ridership estimates have been adjusted to account for changes in data collection over time. Starting in January 2012, data for Small System Waiver agencies that do not have a mode are reported under motor bus. Data reported under hybrid rail are reported under their classifications prior to January 2012.

How many people are staying at home? How far are people traveling when they don’t stay home? Which states and counties have more people taking trips? The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) now provides answers to those questions through our new mobility statistics.

The Trips by Distance data and number of people staying home and not staying home are estimated for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the Maryland Transportation Institute and Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland. The travel statistics are produced from an anonymized national panel of mobile device data from multiple sources. All data sources used in the creation of the metrics contain no personal information. Data analysis is conducted at the aggregate national, state, and county levels. A weighting procedure expands the sample of millions of mobile devices, so the results are representative of the entire population in a nation, state, or county. To assure confidentiality and support data quality, no data are reported for a county if it has fewer than 50 devices in the sample on any given day.

Trips are defined as movements that include a stay of longer than 10 minutes at an anonymized location away from home. Home locations are imputed on a weekly basis. A movement with multiple stays of longer than 10 minutes before returning home is counted as multiple trips. Trips capture travel by all modes of transportation. including driving, rail, transit, and air.

The daily travel estimates are from a mobile device data panel from merged multiple data sources that address the geographic and temporal sample variation issues often observed in a single data source. The merged data panel only includes mobile devices whose anonymized location data meet a set of data quality standards, which further ensures the overall data quality and consistency. The data quality standards consider both temporal frequency and spatial accuracy of anonymized location point observations, temporal coverage and representativeness at the device level, spatial representativeness at the sample and county level, etc. A multi-level weighting method that employs both device and trip-level weights expands the sample to the underlying population at the county and state levels, before travel statistics are computed.

These data are experimental and may not meet all of our quality standards. Experimental data products are created using new data sources or methodologies that benefit data users in the absence of other relevant products. We are seeking feedback from data users and stakeholders on the quality and usefulness of these new products. Experimental data products that meet our quality standards and demonstrate sufficient user demand may enter regular production if resources permit.

How many people are staying at home? How far are people traveling when they don’t stay home? Which states and counties have more people taking trips? The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) now provides answers to those questions through our new mobility statistics.

The Trips by Distance data and number of people staying home and not staying home are estimated for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by the Maryland Transportation Institute and Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland. The travel statistics are produced from an anonymized national panel of mobile device data from multiple sources. All data sources used in the creation of the metrics contain no personal information. Data analysis is conducted at the aggregate national, state, and county levels. A weighting procedure expands the sample of millions of mobile devices, so the results are representative of the entire population in a nation, state, or county. To assure confidentiality and support data quality, no data are reported for a county if it has fewer than 50 devices in the sample on any given day.

Trips are defined as movements that include a stay of longer than 10 minutes at an anonymized location away from home. Home locations are imputed on a weekly basis. A movement with multiple stays of longer than 10 minutes before returning home is counted as multiple trips. Trips capture travel by all modes of transportation. including driving, rail, transit, and air.

The daily travel estimates are from a mobile device data panel from merged multiple data sources that address the geographic and temporal sample variation issues often observed in a single data source. The merged data panel only includes mobile devices whose anonymized location data meet a set of data quality standards, which further ensures the overall data quality and consistency. The data quality standards consider both temporal frequency and spatial accuracy of anonymized location point observations, temporal coverage and representativeness at the device level, spatial representativeness at the sample and county level, etc. A multi-level weighting method that employs both device and trip-level weights expands the sample to the underlying population at the county and state levels, before travel statistics are computed.

These data are experimental and may not meet all of our quality standards. Experimental data products are created using new data sources or methodologies that benefit data users in the absence of other relevant products. We are seeking feedback from data users and stakeholders on the quality and usefulness of these new products. Experimental data products that meet our quality standards and demonstrate sufficient user demand may enter regular production if resources permit.

Bikeshare ridership by system for bikeshare systems with docking stations. Data summarized for each system by: (1) month, (2) day, and (3) hour. Data starting in January 2019. In monthly summary, months are rearranged to include the same number of days of the week across years (see below).

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. In monthly summary, days aligned to include the same days of weeks across years.

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)

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

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.

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.