Commodity Flow Survey Estimates Only Three Months Away

Thursday, February 20, 2025

On Tuesday, May 20, 2025, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) will release the estimates for the 2022 Commodity Flow Survey (CFS). CFS is conducted every five years for BTS by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of the Economic Census.

After releasing the estimates, BTS will subsequently release the following products:

Table showing Commodity Floy Datat Product Release Dates

CFS is a shipper survey of approximately 100,000 establishments from the industries of mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, auxiliaries (i.e. warehouses and distribution centers), and select retail and service trade industries that ship commodities. Results from the CFS are used to analyze trends in the movement of goods, mapping spatial patterns of commodity and vehicle flows, forecasting demands for the movement of goods, and for guiding management and investment decisions on transportation infrastructure.

The 2022 CFS is the seventh survey since the program started in 1993. CFS serves as the main source of data for the Freight Analysis Framework.

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