Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
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BTS 2-Week Outlook
Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases
July 2 through July 13
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics will release the following data sets in the next two weeks:
- Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption, May 2018
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 - 11:00am ET
BTS Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption database to be updated with May data. Last month, US airlines April fuel cost was $2.08 per gallon, up nine cents from March ($1.99) and up 43 cents from April 2017 ($1.65). Industry summary of airline fuel consumption, total fuel cost and price paid per gallon are available on the database. Individual airline numbers through December are available on the BTS website.
- Airline Industry Full-Time/Part-Time Employment, May 2018
Wednesday, July 11, 2018 - 11:00am ET
BTS Airline Employment database to be updated with May data. Last month, U.S. airlines April employment (711,817 total full-time and part-time)) was up 0.7pct from March and up 2.5pct from April 2017. Monthly full-time and part-time employment statistics reported by U.S. airlines that operate at least one aircraft that has more than 60 seats or the capacity to carry a payload of passengers, cargo and fuel weighing more than 18,000 pounds. Includes passenger and cargo airlines.
- Transportation Services Index (TSI), May 2018
Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 11:30am ET
The Freight TSI measures the month-to-month changes in for-hire freight shipments by mode of transportation. The Passenger TSI measures the month-to-month changes in travel that involves the services of the for-hire passenger transportation sector. In the previous release for April, BTS reported that the Freight TSI fell 0.1 percent from March, falling after reaching an all-time high in March.
- Airline Traffic Data, April 2018
Friday, July 13, 2018 - 11:00am ET
U.S. airlines monthly passengers, revenue passenger-miles, available seat-miles and load factor for systemwide, domestic and international. Numbers are seasonally-adjusted and unadjusted. In the previous release for March, U.S. airlines systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passenger enplanements rose 0.2 percent from February, rising to 73.1 million to reach a new all-time seasonally-adjusted high, rising for the second consecutive month.
BTS Previously
BTS has released the following:
- DOT Announces Competition on Advancing Innovative Ways to Analyze Crash Data
Monday, June 25, 2018
The Department of Transportation has launched the Solving for Safety: Visualization Challenge, a national multistage competition for local government, data scientists, technologists, academia and safety experts to analyze risk on the surface transportation system through advanced data analytics.
- North American Freight Data, April 2018
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
BTS reported that truck was the most used mode for shipping freight between the U.S. and other North American countries (Canada and Mexico) in April 2018:
- Most-used mode: Truck moved $65.7 billion of freight, up 15.3 percent compared to April 2017
- Second mode: Rail moved $14.7 billion of freight, down 1.5 percent compared to April 2017 TransBorder Freight Data
BTS Contact: Dave Smallen
202-366-5568