BTS 2-Week Outlook: BTS 2-Week Outlook Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming and Previous Releases

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BTS 2-Week Outlook

Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming and Previous Releases

December 23 thru January 3

Upcoming from December 23

No releases scheduled

 

 

Previously Released

Dec. 11 - Transportation Services Index, October 2019

Dec. 12 - Airline Traffic Data, November 2019 Estimated, September 2019 Reported

Dec. 13 - Passenger Airline Employment, October 2019

Dec. 17 - Airline On-Time/Tarmac Times, October 2019

Dec. 18 - North American Freight Data, October 2019

Dec. 19 - Freight Flow Estimates 2018

Dec. 19 - Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2019

 

 

Upcoming BTS Releases

No releases scheduled in the next two weeks.

See BTS release schedule.

 

BTS Previously

 

BTS has released the following:

 

  • Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), October 2019
December 11
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 1.3% in October from September, rising after a one-month decline. The level of for-hire freight shipments in October measured by the Freight TSI (138.6) was exceeded by three previous months and was 1.0% below the all-time high level of 140.0 in August 2019 From October 2018 to October 2019, the index rose 0.5% compared to a rise of 6.8% from October 2017 to October 2018.

 

 

TSI Oct 2019         

 

 

  • Airline Traffic Data, November 2019 estimate, September 2019 reported
December 12
U.S. airlines carried an all-time high estimated 78.3 million system-wide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in November 2019, reaching a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) first estimate, up 0.2% from the October second estimate. The air traffic estimate released is a statistical estimate based on U.S. airlines reported data through September. For the first 11 months of 2019, January through November, U.S. airlines carried 848.0 million passengers, the highest total based on comparable records since 2003.

Air Traff Nov 2019 Est

                

 

 

  • Passenger Airline Employment, October 2019
December 13
BTS reported that U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 2.6% more workers in October 2019 than in October 2018.
  • October’s 452,440 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) was the highest monthly FTE total since March 2003 (458,598 FTEs).
  • October was the 72nd consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline FTEs exceeded the same month of the previous year.
Release                      

 

 

Air Employment Oct 2019

          

  • Air Travel Consumer Report: October 2019 Numbers
December 17
In October 2019, reporting marketing carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 82.2%, down from the 84.1% on-time rate in September 2019 and down slightly from 82.3% in October 2018. The reporting marketing carriers canceled 0.9% of their scheduled domestic flights, lower than the rate of 1.7% in September 2019, but slightly higher than the rate of 0.8% in October 2018.

 

ATCR Oct 2019

         

 

  • North American Freight Data, October 2019
December 18
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 October 2019:
  • Total Transborder Freight: $1 billion of transborder freight moved by all modes of transportation, down 3.3% compared to October 2018
  • Most-used mode: Truck moved $2 billion of freight, down 2.7% compared to October2018 
  • Second mode: Rail moved $5 billion of freight, down 7.9% compared to October 2018 

 

 

 

Transborder Oct 2019

 

  • 2018 Freight Flow Estimates
December 19
Freight shipments in the U.S. grew from 2017 to 2018, up 3.8% by weight to 18.6 billion tons and up 3.1% by value to $18.9 trillion, the largest one-year percentage rises in the most recent five-year period

2018 FAF

 

 

  • Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2019
December 2019
TSAR is a congressionally-mandated report. This edition of the report provides highlights of recent legislation, specifically the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act and the Geospatial Data Act of 2018, that call attention to the importance of credible statistics for public decision-making.

Topics of focus in this year’s report include:

  • changes in transportation technology;
  • the state of statistics regarding transportation and related topics, and;
  • emerging data sources that can work in concert with traditional statistical programs.

 

 

 

TSAR 2019

 

 

           

See BTS Release Schedule

 

 

 

BTS Contact: Dave Smallen
202-366-5568