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Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

Truck Transportation

Washington, District of Columbia 976 followers

BTS, part of US Dept of Transportation, provides timely, accurate information on US transportation and its consequences.

About us

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides timely, accurate, credible information on the U.S. transportation system, the movement of people and goods, and the consequences of transportation for the economy, society and the environment.

Website
https://www.bts.gov
Industry
Truck Transportation
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Washington, District of Columbia
Type
Government Agency
Founded
1992
Specialties
Transportation Statistics, Transportation Data, and Government

Locations

  • Primary

    1200 New Jersey Ave SE

    Washington, District of Columbia 20590, US

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Employees at Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)

Updates

  • BTS Data Release: Motor Fuel Prices – June 2025 In June 2025, the average price for regular motor gasoline was $3.15 per gallon; unchanged from May 2025 and down 8.8% from June 2024. By region, the average price for regular motor gasoline in June 2025 was and year-over-year change: - West Coast: $4.15 (down 4.7%) - Rocky Mountain: $3.14 (down 5.3%) - Central Atlantic: $3.14 (down 11.6%) - Midwest: $3.02 (down 8.8%) - New England: $3.00 (down 12.9%) - Lower Atlantic: $2.92 (down 10.6%) The average price for diesel no. 2 rose to $3.60 in June 2025, up 2.9% from May 2025, and down 3.3% from June 2024. https://lnkd.in/eWQwd2ih

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  • BTS Data Release: U.S. Airlines’ May 2025 Aviation Fuel Consumption up 4.0% and Fuel Cost per Gallon down 4.1% from April 2025 The U.S. airline industry's May 2025 fuel cost and consumption numbers indicating U.S. scheduled service airlines used 1.639 billion gallons of fuel, 4.0% more fuel than in April 2025 (1.576 billion gallons) and 0.4% less fuel than May 2024. The cost per gallon of fuel in May 2025 ($2.21) was down 9 cents (4.1%) from April 2025 ($2.31) and down 44 cents (16.5%) from May 2024. Total May 2025 fuel expenditure ($3.63B) was down 0.3% from April 2025 ($3.64B) and down 16.8% from May 2024 ($4.36B). https://lnkd.in/eiPJ9YDR

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  • BTS Data Release: June 2025 U.S. Transportation Sector Unemployment (4.5%) Falls Below the June 2024 Level (4.8%) but Rises Above the Pre-Pandemic June 2019 Level (4.1%) In June 2025, the unemployment rate in the U.S. transportation sector was 4.5% (not seasonally adjusted). Seasonally adjusted, employment in the transportation and warehousing sector rose to 6,746,500 in June 2025 — up 0.1% from the previous month and up 1.3% from June 2024. bts.gov/newsroom/june-…

    • U.S. unemployment and transportation sector unemployment rates.
  • BTS Data Spotlight: Navigation Channel Bridges at Top-Ranking Ports Navigation channel bridges associated with highway and maritime transportation provide passage for vehicles to cross waterways, they also limit a port's ability to accommodate growing vessel sizes due to vertical clearances. As a result, an inoperative or collapsed channel bridge can impact the U.S. supply chain and freight movement. Six ports: - Port of Baltimore, Maryland - Port of Virginia, Virginia - Port of Mobile, Alabama - Port of New Orleans, Louisiana - Port of Houston, Texas - Port of Long Beach, California https://lnkd.in/eT-HbKmb

    • Map showing the Six Top-Ranking Ports with Navigation Channel Bridges.
  • BTS Data Release: BTS Releases Transportation Public Finance Statistics 2023 data BTS released the Transportation Public Finance Statistics (TPFS) with preliminary 2023 data. TPFS provides information on transportation-related revenue and expenditures for all levels of Government, including Federal, state, and local, and for all modes of transportation. Coming Soon: BTS will be releasing State-by-State TPFS numbers. As seen in the chart below, expenditures when adjusted for inflation hit a peak in 2020 and declined after that. While inflation-adjusted expenditures increased in 2023 from 2022 by $25 billion, they are still $32.3 billion below the 2020 peak. https://lnkd.in/eRmFwuSb

    • Line chart showing current vs. inflation adjusted expenditures from 20-7-2023.
  • BTS Data Release: BTS Updates National Transportation Statistics 6/30/2025 BTS today released its monthly update to National Transportation Statistics (NTS), a guide to historical national-level transportation trends and 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. https://lnkd.in/eZdTAeX6

    • Modes of transportation: electric car, highway, port with plane flying above and a train.
  • BTS Data Release: Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) 2022 Data Released Every five years, BTS conducts the CFS as part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s economic census. CFS data provides a comprehensive, multimodal picture of national freight flows for roughly three-fourths of all freight movements and represents the only publicly available source of data for commodity flows by highway. The 2022 CFS measured nearly 12.2 billion tons of goods valued at more than $18.0 trillion shipped by American manufacturers, wholesalers, and other selected industries according to the statistics released today. In its seventh edition since 1993, the 2022 CFS surveys approximately 165,000 establishments from the industries of mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, auxiliaries, and select retail and service trade industries that ship commodities. https://lnkd.in/eHuAWnGb

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  • BTS Data Release: Freight Analysis Framework 6/25/25 Updated Today BTS released an updated version of its Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) commodity flow dataset, which now includes preliminary annual estimates for 2024 and final annual estimates for 2023. - Base year (2017) - Annual estimates (2018–2023) - Preliminary annual estimates (2024) - Forecast year estimates (2030–2050) - State-level historical trend estimates (1997–2012) https://lnkd.in/e-t6PT4y

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