News Digest: January 10, 2017

BTS Releases Transportation Economic Trends Report - 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 report uses a variety of data...

2015 Revised Value of a Statistical Life Guidance

2015 Revised Value of a Statistical Life Guidance

2014 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

2014 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

1997 Value of Travel Time Guidance

1997 Value of Travel Time Guidance

2003 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

2003 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

2011 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

2011 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

2015 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

2015 Revised Value of Travel Time Guidance

BTS Statistics Release: October 2016 Passenger Airline Employment Data

U.S. scheduled passenger airlines employed 4.0 percent more workers in October 2016 than in October 2015, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today. October was the highest monthly FTE total (415,891) since January 2005 (417,789) and...

BTS Statistics Release: September 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 83.6 percent in September, seasonally adjusted, rising...

October 2016 Airline On-Time Performance Equal to September 2016, Slightly Down From October 2015

WASHINGTON – The reporting carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 85.5 percent in October 2016, equal to the 85.5 percent mark in September 2016, but slightly down from the 87.0 percent on-time rate in October 2015, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) released today.

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