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News Digest DOT 66-15
BTS’ National Transportation Statistics Updated - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today updated National Transportation Statistics (NTS) – a web-only reference guide to national-level transportation data. NTS, updated quarterly, includes a wide range of national transportation information.
News Digest DOT 59-15
BTS Releases Commodity Flow Survey Microdata - The Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau released a public use microdata product from the 2012 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) on Monday.
TSI measures more than the number of trucks on the road
When then Secretary Norman Mineta rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 2004 to announce a new monthly transportation index, he kicked off a new era in the use of statistics for measuring transportation. In the decade since, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, the DOT’s data agency, has been applying its advanced statistical methods to track the level of transportation activity, issuing an index number every month.
During the past 11 years, the BTS Transportation Services Index (TSI) has shown the changes in transportation activity, including both its low in the 2007-2009 recession and its record highs in recent months...
![TSI showing Freight, Passengers, and Total](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161112133546im_/https://cms.dot.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/pictures/TSI-3-series.jpg)
Transportation Services Index (TSI) Freight and Passengers (Year 2000=100)
March 2015 Complaints About Airline Service Up From Previous Year And February 2015
WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division in March 2015 were up 55.1 percent from March 2014 and up 27.2 percent from February 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
News Digest DOT 31-15
BTS Issues Transportation Statistics Annual Report: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) today released the Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR).