Bureau of Transportation Statistics updates national transportation database with August data release

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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics' August update to National Transportation Statistics adds revised tables on aviation, freight, safety, operator counts, and vessel data.
New datasets refresh key metrics such as enplaned revenue passengers, freight tons, baggage mishandling, flight delays, motor carrier activity, and highway-rail safety outcomes.
Economic and environmental tables now include updated U.S. GDP by social function, transportation industry earnings, operating revenues, and transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.

August update adds aviation, freight and safety tables

Según Bureau of Transportation Statistics, citando a the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the agency today released its monthly update to National Transportation Statistics, a reference collection of national transportation data maintained at the federal level.

The new update includes revised or newly added data for a wide range of tables, including the number of air carriers, railroads, interstate motor carriers, marine vessel operators and pipeline operators. It also refreshes figures on U.S. flag vessels by type and age, air carrier aircraft departures, enplaned revenue passengers and freight tons, average length of haul, U.S. ton-miles of freight, and passenger boarding and denied boarding at the largest U.S. air carriers.

Additional updates cover baggage mishandling by marketing U.S. air carriers, on-time arriving flight operations, FAA-cited causes of departure and en route delays, and highway-rail grade-crossing safety and property damage data. BTS also updates state distracted driving laws, highway crash fatalities by blood alcohol concentration, crash patterns by weekday, time, weather and light conditions, posted speed limit data, safety belt and motorcycle helmet use, and personal watercraft safety figures.

Federal dataset tracks economic and energy effects

The August release also updates transportation-related economic and environmental indicators, including U.S. gross domestic product by major social function, total operating revenues, median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers in transportation by detailed occupation, and transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.

National Transportation Statistics was first published by BTS in November 1971 and now includes more than 200 regularly updated datasets and tables. The agency says the publication has expanded over time by incorporating materials from other Department of Transportation programs, making it a broad reference point for policymakers, businesses and researchers tracking long-term transportation conditions in the U.S.

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