Number of trucks entering the United States from Canada. The Bureau of Transportation of Statistics releases incoming border crossing statistics using data collected at ports of entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Number of air travel passengers boarded and denied boarding by month

Total value of merchandise freight for United States exports to and imports from Mexico. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics releases freight data using a special tabulation of official international trade statistics that are collected by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and processed and validated by the U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade Division.

The objective of this project was to develop system designs for programs to monitor travel time reliability and to prepare a guidebook that practitioners and others can use to design, build, operate, and maintain such systems. Generally, such travel time reliability monitoring systems are built on top of existing traffic monitoring systems. The focus of this project was on travel time reliability. The data from the monitoring systems developed in this project – from both public and private sources –included, wherever cost-effective, information on the seven sources of non-recurring congestion. This data was used to construct performance measures or to perform various types of analyses useful for operations management as well as performance measurement, planning, and programming. The work on Project L02 began with a research phase. The primary results of Project L02 research were a guidebook and a final report. An additional contribution of the research showed that it may be possible to add the variability of travel time from one segment to another. Another contribution of the research was the development of a queuing point model, an application that analytically determines travel time reliability over a freeway segment. The supporting zip file contains case study datasets for SHRP 2 Report S2-L02-RR1: Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability, https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4039 The files are in comma separated value (.csv) format. The compressed zip file is 84.15 MB. These files can be unzipped using any zip compression/decompression software. The .csv files can be read with any basic text editor.

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.

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.

Pre-2020 backfill data are now available for all days going back through January 1, 2019.

Monthly Transportation Statistics is a compilation of national statistics on transportation. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics brings together the latest data from across the Federal government and transportation industry. Monthly Transportation Statistics contains over 50 time series from nearly two dozen data sources.

Transportation Services Index 2000-Present, including numbers and percent changes for TSI, Freight TSI, and Passenger TSI
Chained 2000=100