Bureau of Transportation Statistics Upcoming Releases

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page.   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. Database 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. Previous release Transportation Services Index background and data     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. Previous release Data     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.  Release   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    Release   See BTS Release Schedule       BTS Contact: Dave Smallen 202-366-5568 david.smallen@dot.gov     You are subscribed to DOT email updates. Subscriber Services: Manage Preferences Questions for BTS? Contact BTS  STAY CONNECTED             U.S. Department of Transportation | 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE | Washington DC 20590 | 202-385-HELP (4357)