BTS 10-17 Advisory Thursday, February 23, 2017 Contact: Dave Smallen Tel: 202-366-5568
BTS Statistics Release: December 2016 North American Freight Numbers
U.S.-NAFTA freight totaled $87.1 billion in current dollars as three out of five major transportation modes carried more freight by value with North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico in December 2016 compared to December 2015, according to the TransBorder Freight Data released today by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).
The 0.4 percent rise from December 2015 was the third time in the last five months where the year-over-year value of U.S.-NAFTA freight increased from the same month of the previous year.
Freight by Mode The value of commodities moving by pipeline increased 30.9 percent, vessel by 2.0 percent, and rail by 0.9 percent. Air decreased by 1.4 percent, and truck by 2.0 percent. The large percentage increase in the value of goods moving by pipeline was largely due to a 40 percent increase in the year-over-year price of crude oil between December 2015 and December 2016.
Trucks carried 61.9 percent of U.S.-NAFTA freight and continued to be the most heavily utilized mode for moving goods to and from both U.S.-NAFTA partners. Trucks accounted for $27.4 billion of the $46.8 billion of imports (58.6 percent) and $26.4 billion of the $40.3 billion of exports (65.6 percent).
Rail remained the second largest mode by value, moving 15.2 percent of all U.S.-NAFTA freight, followed by vessel, 6.5 percent; pipeline, 6.1 percent; and air, 4.2 percent. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 83.1 percent of the total value of U.S.-NAFTA freight flows.
U.S.-Canada Freight From December 2015 to December 2016, the value of U.S.-Canada freight flows decreased by 1.2 percent to $44.5 billion as the value of freight on three modes decreased from a year earlier. The value of freight carried on truck decreased by 2.1 percent, rail by 5.4 percent, and vessel by 20.8 percent. The value of commodities moved in pipeline increased by 28.7 percent, reflecting the increased value of mineral fuels year over year. Air increased by 1.1 percent. During this 12-month period, much of the mineral fuel freight between Texas and Canada shifted from vessel to pipeline as the value of mineral fuel shipments carried by vessel between Texas and Canada decreased while the value of pipeline shipments rose. Texas-Canada mineral fuel trade made up about 13.9 percent of all U.S.-Canada mineral fuel shipments in December 2016.
Trucks carried 56.7 percent of the value of the freight to and from Canada. Rail carried 15.2 percent followed by pipeline, 11.0 percent; air, 5.0 percent; and vessel, 3.6 percent. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 82.9 percent of the value of total U.S.-Canada freight flows.
U.S.-Mexico Freight From December 2015 to December 2016, the value of U.S.-Mexico freight flows increased by 2.1 percent to $42.6 billion as the value of freight on three out of five major modes increased from a year earlier. The value of commodities moved in pipeline increased by 66.1 percent, vessel by 14.9 percent, and rail by 8.4 percent. Truck decreased by 1.9 percent, and air by 5.2 percent.
Trucks carried 67.2 percent of the value of the freight to and from Mexico. Rail carried 15.2 percent of the value of freight to and from Mexico followed by vessel, 9.6 percent; air, 3.4 percent; and pipeline, 0.9 percent. The surface transportation modes of truck, rail and pipeline carried 83.3 percent of the value of total U.S.-Mexico freight flows.
See BTS Transborder Statistics Release for summary tables and additional data. See North American Transborder Freight Data on the BTS website for additional data for surface modes since 1995 and all modes since 2004.
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BTS Statistics Release: December 2016 North American Freight Numbers
BTS Statistics Release: December 2016 Passenger Airline Employment Data
BTS 09-17 Advisory Tuesday, February 21, 2017 Contact: Dave Smallen Tel: 202-366-5568
BTS Statistics Release: December 2016 Passenger Airline Employment Data
U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 3.7 percent more workers in December 2016 than in December 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. December was the highest monthly FTE total (416,337) since March 2008 (416,457) and was the 38th consecutive month that U.S. scheduled passenger airline full-time equivalent (FTE) employment exceeded the same month of the previous year.
Month-to-month, the number of FTEs rose 0.1 percent from November to December (Table 1A). Scheduled passenger airline categories include network, low-cost, regional and other airlines.
The four network airlines that collectively employ two-thirds of the scheduled passenger airline FTEs reported 2.4 percent more FTEs in December 2016 than in December 2015. Alaska Airlines, United Airlines, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines increased FTEs from December 2015. Month-to-month, the number of network airline FTEs rose 0.1 percent from November to December.
The network airlines employed 7.3 percent more FTEs in December 2016 than in December 2012. Network airlines operate a significant portion of their flights using at least one hub where connections are made for flights to down-line destinations or spoke cities.
The six low-cost carriers reported 9.5 percent more FTEs in December 2016 than in December 2015. Allegiant Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Virgin America and Southwest Airlines increased FTEs from December 2015. Month-to-month, the number of low-cost airline FTEs was virtually unchanged from November to December. The six low-cost airlines employed 22.4 percent more FTEs in December 2016 than in December 2012. Low-cost airlines operate under a low-cost business model, with infrastructure and aircraft operating costs below the overall industry average.
The 12 regional carriers reported 0.2 percent more FTEs in December 2016 than in December 2015. Nine regional airlines – Republic Airlines, Compass Airlines, Endeavor Air, PSA Airlines, Mesa Airlines, GoJet Airlines, SkyWest Airlines, Horizon Air and Envoy Air increased FTEs from December 2015. The others reported decreases. Month-to-month, the number of regional airline FTEs was virtually unchanged from November to December. The 12 regional carriers reporting in December 2016 employed 0.4 percent more FTEs than the 14 carriers reporting in December 2012. Regional carriers typically provide service from small cities, using primarily regional jets to support the network carriers' hub and spoke systems.
See Passenger Airline Employment Passenger Airline Employment statistical release for summary tables and additional data. Historical employment data can be found on the BTS web site.
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BTS Statistics Release: November 2016 U.S. Airline Traffic Data
BTS 08-17 Advisory Thursday, February 16, 2017 Contact: Dave Smallen Tel: 202-366-5568 BTS Statistics Release: November 2016 U.S. Airline Traffic Data
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines' systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service load factor – a measure of the use of airline capacity – rose to 84.3 percent in November, seasonally adjusted, rising for the third consecutive month. Seasonal adjustment allows the comparing of monthly load factors to all other months.
The seasonally-adjusted load factor rose from October (84.0) to November (84.3) because passenger travel grew faster (1.1 percent increase in RPMs) than system capacity (0.8 percent increase in ASMs).
Load factor is a measure of the use of aircraft capacity that compares the system use, measured in Revenue Passenger-Miles (RPMs) as a proportion of system capacity, measured in Available Seat-Miles (ASMs).
Trends: Seasonally-adjusted While up month-to-month, systemwide load factor (84.3) was down 0.7 points from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (85.0) reached in October 2015 (Table 1). Domestic load factor (85.3) was down 1.1 points from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (86.4) reached in October 2015. International load factor (81.8) was down 1.3 points from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (83.1) reached in March 2013.
Systemwide RPMs (78.4 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.1 percent from June 2016 (78.3 billion). Domestic RPM (55.8 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.6 percent from September 2016 (55.5 billion). International RPMs (22.6 billion) were down 2.1 percent from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (23.1 billion) reached in July 2016.
Systemwide ASMs (93.0 billion) were down 0.5 percent from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (93.5 billion) reached in June 2016. Domestic ASMs (65.4 billion) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.2 percent from August 2016 (65.3 billion). International ASMs (27.6 billion) were down 2.7 percent from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (28.4 billion) reached in June 2016.
Systemwide passenger enplanements (69.5 million) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.3 percent from September 2016 (69.3 million). Domestic passenger enplanements (60.9 million) reached a new seasonally-adjusted all-time high, up 0.3 percent from September 2016 (60.7 million). International passenger enplanements (8.6 million) were down 1.9 percent from the all-time seasonally-adjusted high (8.7 million) reached in June 2016.
Seasonally adjusted trends are for the time period January 2000 to present. Additional data, including domestic and international numbers, can be found on the seasonally-adjusted data page.
Unadjusted Systemwide load factor (83.1) was up 0.7 points from the previous all-time November high (82.4) reached in 2015. Domestic load factor (84.7) was up 0.5 points from the previous all-time November high (84.2) reached in 2015. International load factor (78.9) was down 0.7 points from the all-time November high (79.6) reached in 2012.
Systemwide RPMs (72.2 billion) reached an all-time November high, up 3.1 percent from the previous high (70.0 billion) reached in 2015. Domestic RPMs (53.3 billion) reached an all-time November high, up 4.6 percent from the previous high (50.9 billion) reached in 2015. International RPMs (18.9 billion) were down 1.0 percent from the all-time November high (19.1 billion) reached in 2015.
Systemwide ASMs (86.9 billion) reached an all-time November high, up 2.3 percent from the previous high (84.9 billion) reached in 2015. Domestic ASMs (62.9 billion) reached an all-time November high, up 3.4 percent from the previous high (60.8 billion) reached in 2007. International ASMs (24.0 billion) were down 2.8 percent from the all-time November high (24.7 billion) reached in 2014.
Systemwide passenger enplanements (66.6 million) reached an all-time November high, up 3.1 percent from the previous high (64.6 million) reached in 2015. Domestic passenger enplanements (59.3 million) reached an all-time November high, up 3.7 percent from the previous high (57.2 million) reached in 2015. International passenger enplanements (7.3 million) were down 1.6 percent from the all-time November high (7.4 million) reached in 2015.
Unadjusted trends are for the time period January 1996 to present. Data are available at Customize Table and both unadjusted and adjusted data can be downloaded from the seasonally-adjusted data page.
See Air Traffic Release for summary tables and additional data. Additional traffic data can be found on the BTS Airlines and Airports page. Click on a link in the Quick Links box on the right. See Load factor, RPMs, ASMs and Passengers. For more historical data, see Traffic on the BTS website. See Seasonal Adjustment for methodology and additional explanation. See data for airline data since 2000 as well as seasonally-adjusted data for rail, transit, pipelines, trucking and waterways.
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2016 Flight Cancellation, Mishandled Baggage, and Bumping Rates are Lowest in Decades
DOT 20-17 Tuesday, February 14, 2017 Contact: Caitlin Harvey Tel.: (202) 366-4570
2016 Flight Cancellation, Mishandled Baggage, and Bumping Rates are Lowest in Decades
WASHINGTON – In 2016, the reporting carriers canceled 1.17 percent of their scheduled domestic flights, an improvement over the 1.5 percent cancellation rate in 2015 and the lowest in the 22 years with comparable numbers, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) released today. The previous low was 1.24 percent in 2002. The reporting carriers canceled 1.6 percent of their scheduled domestic flights in December 2016, an improvement over the 1.7 percent cancellation rate posted in December 2015, but up from the 0.3 percent rate in November 2016.
In 2016, the carriers posted a mishandled baggage rate of 2.70 per 1,000 passengers, down from 2015's rate of 3.13 and the lowest annual rate since DOT started collecting mishandled baggage report data in September 1987. The previous low was 3.09 in 2012. The U.S. carriers reporting mishandled baggage data posted a mishandled baggage rate of 3.58 reports per 1,000 passengers in December, down from December 2015's rate of 3.97, but up from November 2016's rate of 2.02.
The carriers posted a bumping rate of 0.62 per 10,000 passengers in 2016, an improvement over the 0.73 rate posted in 2015 and the lowest annual rate based on historical data dating back to 1995. The previous low was 0.72 in 2002. These carriers posted a bumping rate of 0.54 per 10,000 passengers for the quarter, down from the 0.69 rate for the fourth quarter of 2015.
The consumer report also includes data on on-time performance, tarmac delays, chronically delayed flights, and the causes of flight delays filed with the Department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) by the reporting carriers. In addition, the consumer report contains a tally of aviation service complaints filed with DOT's Aviation Consumer Protection Division by consumers regarding a range of issues such as flight problems, baggage, reservation and ticketing, refunds, customer service, disability, and discrimination. The report also includes information about the total number of animals that died, were injured, or were lost during air transport in December 2016 and calendar year 2016, as filed by the air carriers with the Aviation Consumer Protection Division. In addition, the report introduces data about the total number of animals transported by airlines during the calendar year.
Consumers may file air travel consumer or civil rights complaints on the web at http://airconsumer.dot.gov/escomplaint/ConsumerForm.cfm. This news release is available at https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/dot2017. The full consumer report is available at www.transportation.gov/individuals/air-consumer/air-travel-consumer-reports. Detailed information on flight delays is available at www.bts.gov.
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Kansas City Moving Forward with Smart City Plan
Posted by US DOT Public Affairs TechCrunch.com recently wrote about Kansas City, Mo., becoming a "smart city" by creating a two-mile smart street corridor. The city has added free public Wi-Fi across 50 blocks, 125 LED streetlights that respond to activity, kiosks where people can learn about transportation options and city services. Click here to continue reading Kansas City Moving Forward with Smart City Plan.
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