The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released Transportation Economic Trends, BTS’s first stand-alone volume on transportation and the economy.
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released Transportation Economic Trends,BTS’s first stand-alone volume on transportation and the economy. The 94-page reportuses a variety of data series to highlight relevant trends and explain related measurement concepts.
The topics covered in the report are the Transportation Services Index, a monthly summary of freight and passenger movement; what transportation contributes to the American economy; the costs that households and businesses pay for transportation; transportation-related employment; trends in transportation productivity; household spending on transportation goods and services; government transportation spending and revenue; and the value of transportation. The report will be regularly updated on the BTS website.
