Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

BTS Data Release: Transportation Producer Price Index – July 2025 Transportation equipment Producer Price Index (PPI) indicates the changes in transportation equipment prices faced by transportation providers, and any increase, increases providers costs. PPI shows that prices increased for freight transportation and equipment 1.9% in July 2025 from July 2024. https://lnkd.in/eREASXwi

BTS Data Release: May 2025 U.S. Airline Traffic Data Down 2.1% from the Same Month Last Year In May 2025, U.S. airlines carried 85.2 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers. May enplanements are up 0.5% from April 2025. - Domestic Passengers: 74.2M - International Passengers: 11M https://lnkd.in/eGkHRFFe

BTS Data Release: The June 2025 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI) Fell 0.4% from the Previous Month and Fell 0.5% from the Same Month Last Year TSI, which measures the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, fell 0.4% in June from May, falling for the first month after two consecutive months of growth. From June 2024 to June 2025 the freight index fell 0.5%. https://lnkd.in/eXgeUD7n

BTS Data Release: Transportation Consumer Price Index – July 2025 The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for all transportation goods and services was unchanged 0.0% from July 2024 to July 2025. Transportation contributed 1.0% to the 2.7% increase in the price of all goods and services, per the CPI. https://lnkd.in/eaRusQhu

BTS Data Release: U.S. Cargo and Passenger Airlines Gained 8,962 Jobs in June 2025 U.S. airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) employment increased to 1,021,493 workers in June 2025, 8,962 (0.89%) more workers than in May 2025 (1,012,531). - Passenger Airlines: 551,287 workers - Cargo Airlines: 465,930 workers https://lnkd.in/evEFdTSU

BTS New Program Page: BTS Passenger Travel Facts and Figures BTS has developed a new Passenger Travel Facts and Figures webpage to showcase the agency’s snapshot of regularly updated passenger travel data. These passenger travel facts and figures compile characteristics and trends of personal travel in the United States and how people move. https://lnkd.in/eN9SrZz4

BTS Data Release: Airline Service Quality Performance Data – May 2025 Today BTS released its Airline Service Quality Performance data compiled for the month of May 2025 for on-time performance, mishandled baggage, mishandled wheelchairs, and scooters. https://lnkd.in/erNJXRHF

Can a train arrive before it leaves? Before 1883, the answer was yes! At that time, North America used more than 144 local times, making travel schedules so confusing that trains sometimes arrived earlier than they left! With the rapid growth of railroads, this patchwork of local times became a safety and scheduling nightmare. To solve it, major railroads introduced a coordinated system of four time zones in 1883, an innovation that revolutionized how Americans measure and organize time. Because standardized time was born out of transportation needs, the federal government placed oversight with transportation agencies. By 1918, the Interstate Commerce Commission officially adopted five time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific, and Alaska. The creation of the Department of Transportation (DOT) in 1966 reinforced the uniform adoption of time zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST), regulated by the Uniform Time Act. Today, DOT continues to oversee time zones and DST to support transportation, commerce, and daily life. Any changes to time zone boundaries must serve the “convenience of commerce” and require approval from state or local officials. For instance, Mercer County, ND, officially switched time zones as recently as 2010. In 2019, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), in partnership with the DOT Office of General Counsel, developed a verified digital map of U.S. time zone boundaries. This geospatial layer, part of BTS’ National Transportation Atlas Database, provides authoritative, easy-to-access information about our nine official U.S. time zones, from Atlantic to Chamorro. Explore the interactive map and learn how BTS supports the smooth running of transportation and commerce by keeping America’s time zones clear and coordinated. Discover this fascinating transportation-driven story of time at https://lnkd.in/er6PcATv #TransportationData #TimeZones #DaylightSavingTime #USDOT #BTS #TransportationHistory #DataForGood

BTS Product Release: BTS Unveils New Statistical Program on Trucking and Freight Mobility Today, BTS launched the first of several new experimental statistics related to freight mobility based on a national database of processed global position system (GPS) data harvested from a sample of over 350,000 trucks. The BTS American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) Freight Mobility Initiative (FMI), it provides users with the median, twenty-fifth percentile, and seventy-fifth percentile travel times observed by the subset of trucks seen moving between each unique pairing of the more than 3,000 counties in the United States. https://lnkd.in/epi-NHQS

BTS Data Release: Motor Fuel Prices – July 2025 In July 2025, the average price for regular motor gasoline was $3.13 per gallon; down 0.8% from June 2025 and down 10.3% from July 2024. The average price for diesel no. 2 rose to $3.78 in July 2025, up 5.0% from June 2025, but down 0.8% from July 2024. By region: - West Coast: $4.03 - Central Atlantic: $3.14 - Rocky Mountain: $3.13 - New England: $3.02 - Midwest: $3.00 - Lower Atlantic: $2.92 - Gulf Coast: $2.73 https://lnkd.in/eR2pdc82