Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

BTS Data Release: U.S. Airlines’ March 2025 Fuel Cost per Gallon down 0.5% and Aviation Fuel Consumption up 18.4% from February 2025 https://lnkd.in/enF9bdWu The cost per gallon of fuel in March 2025 ($2.43) was down 1.3 cents (0.5%) from February 2025 ($2.45). Total March 2025 fuel expenditure ($3.92B) was up 17.8% from February 2025 ($3.33B). Year-over-year changes in fuel consumption and cost for March 2025 includes a 0.5% increase in domestic fuel consumption, a 12.2% decrease in domestic fuel cost, and a 12.7% decrease in cost per gallon. Domestic fuel consumption increased 17.8% from February 2025 to March 2025, while increasing 4.4% from March 2019. The increase in fuel consumption reflects growth in airline passenger travel over the same period. The March 2025 fuel cost and consumption numbers indicating U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.609 billion gallons of fuel, 18.4% more fuel than in February 2025 (1.359 billion gallons).

BTS Data Release: April 2025 U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment (3.6%) Falls Below the April 2024 Level (4.7%) And the Pre-Pandemic April 2019 Level (3.7%) https://lnkd.in/eJKKCyDD The unemployment rate in the U.S. transportation sector was 3.6% (not seasonally adjusted) in April 2025. Unemployment in the transportation sector was lower than overall unemployment (3.9% or 0.3 percentage points above the transportation sector rate). Seasonally adjusted, employment in the transportation and warehousing sector rose to 6,794,500 in April 2025 — up 0.4% from the previous month and up 2.3% from April 2024.

BTS Data Release: BTS Updates Datasets to National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD), Spring 2025 https://lnkd.in/eyve9jja NTAD is a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, networks, and associated infrastructure. Updates include: - 119th Congressional Districts - Alternative Fueling Stations - Aviation Facilities - Runways - Dams - Inland Electronic Navigational Charts - Nonattainment Areas - National Parks - Intercity Bus Atlas Routes and Stops - Principal Ports - National Highway System - Metropolitan Planning Organizations - National Transit Map Agencies, Routes, and Stops - North American Rail Network Lines and Nodes - Railroad Grade Crossings - Rail Yards - Fatality Analysis Reporting System data - Highway Traffic Fatalities (2023 & 2023 Annual Reports) - Bikeshare - Weigh-in-Motion Stations (2024)

BTS Data Release: BTS Updates National Transportation Statistics 4/30/2025 https://lnkd.in/gR9Q55Ns Each month, BTS updates NTS with transportation statistics from across the following areas: - The extent, condition, use, and performance of the physical transportation network and infrastructure; - Safety information including accidents, crashes, fatalities, and injuries for each transportation mode and for hazardous materials movement; - Transportation’s impact on the economy, including gross domestic product, employment by industry and occupation, and transportation-related consumer and Government expenditures; and - Transportation’s impact on energy use.

BTS Data Release: North American Transborder Freight rose 2.1% in February 2025 from February 2024 https://lnkd.in/efk6HGmy Transborder freight between the U.S. and North American countries totaled $131.6 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, increasing 2.1% compared to February 2024. - Trucks: $86.6B - Railways: $15.1B - Pipelines: $10.0B - Vessels: $7.7B - Air: $4.8B

BTS Data Release: U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Lost 4,423 Jobs in February 2025 https://lnkd.in/e_nrackH U.S. airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) employment decreased to 1,004,718 workers in February 2025, 4,423 (0.44%) less workers than in January 2025 (1,009,141). U.S. scheduled-service passenger airlines employed 544,156 workers in February 2025, or 54% of the industry-wide total. Passenger airlines gained 269 employees in February 2025. U.S. cargo airlines employed 456,352 workers in February 2025, or 46% of the industry-wide total. Cargo carriers lost 4,677 employees in February.

BTS Data Spotlight: Live Monitoring of Tanker Vessel Calls at U.S. Ports https://lnkd.in/e3YdkTgS In 2024, crude oil was imported and exported via vessel at 34 U.S. seaports. There were nine ports located on the East Coast (30.3 million short tons), 14 ports on the Gulf Coast (274.8 million short tons), 10 ports on the West Coast (52 million short tons), and on port in Alaska (1.1 million short tons). The top-three ports were Corpus Christi, TX; Houston, TX; and Long Beach, CA [U.S. Census Bureau 2025]. On Friday, April 4, 2025, there were 15 tanker vessels anchored off the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles (Figure 1), with five tanker vessels at berth.

BTS Data Release: Transportation Producer Price Index – March 2025 https://lnkd.in/e4689iST The Producer Price Index (PPI) tracks the change in the costs faced by producers purchasing transportation services and industries producing them. PPI measures inflation from the perspective of costs to industry or producers of products. The PPI shows that prices increased for freight transportation and equipment 1.6% in March 2025 from March 2024.

BTS Data Release: January 2025 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Up 1.0% from January 2024 https://lnkd.in/eXXpQRgs U.S. airlines carried 70.7 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in January 2025. When adjusted for seasonality, January enplanements are down 2.3% from December and down 2.3% from the all-time high reached in December 2024. BTS reported 60.4 million domestic passengers and 10.4 million international passengers on U.S. airlines flights in January, not adjusting for seasonality.

https://lnkd.in/eAJrx4_j BTS Data Release: February 2025 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Up 0.9% from the January 2025 and Up 0.9% from February 2024 TSI, which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.9% in February from January, rising after a one-month decline.