Tuesday, March 24, 2026

BTS Updates Transportation Economic Trends Winter 2026

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

The U.S. Department of Transportation's, Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), today released its Winter 2026 update to the Transportation Economic Trends (TET). TET highlights transportation's role in the economy and explores changes (trends) over time through a series of interactive charts and downloadable data. TET also explains related concepts and data sources for a general audience.

With this data release, BTS updated the following topics in TET:

Cost of Transportation

Costs Faced by Producers
- Producer Price Indexes for Select Transportation Equipment
Costs Faced by Businesses Purchasing Transportation Services
- Producer Price Indexes for Transportation and Warehousing Services
Costs Faced by Households
- Components of Consumer Price Index for Transportation
- Consumer Price Index for Transportation

Employment in Transportation

Employment in Transportation and Related Industries
- Employment in Transportation-Related Labor Force
- Employment in For-Hire Transportation by Mode
- Percent of Workers in Transportation and Warehousing Age 55 and Over
Employment in Transportation Related Occupations
- Average Hourly Compensation (wages and benefits) -- Quarterly
- Percentage of Part-Time Workers

Transportation Productivity

Revenue per Unit of Output
- Average Passenger Revenue per Passenger-Mile Indexes
- Average Freight Revenue per Ton-Mile Indexes

Total National Household Spending

Total National Household Spending
- Total National Household Expenditures (Personal Consumption Expenditures)
- Total National Household Transportation Expenditures (Personal Consumption Expenditures) by Year

Average Household Spending

Average Household Spending
- Average Household Expenditures (Consumer Expenditure Survey) by Year
- Average Individual Household Expenditures (Consumer Expenditure Survey)
- Detailed Average Individual Household Transportation Expenditures (Consumer Expenditure Survey)
- Average Individual Household Transportation Expenditures by Selected Household Characteristics
- Household Expenditures in Urban and Rural Areas

Value of Transportation Infrastructure and Other Assets

Transportation Capital Stock
- Value of Transportation Capital Stock
- Value of Transportation Capital Stock by Year (current dollars)
Investment in Transportation
- Public Investment in New Transportation Infrastructure
- Private (Business) Investment in Transportation New Infrastructure and Equipment
- Value of Construction Put in Place
- Public and Private Investment in Transportation
- Investment in Fixed Transportation Assets (Infrastructure and Equipment) as a Percent of Total U.S. Investment in Fixed Assets

About the Transportation Economic Trends Database

BTS makes TET data available for download in comma-separated values (CSV), Resource Description Framework (RDF), Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Extensible Markup Language (XML), and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) formats through the BTS Transportation Economic Trends.

Follow BTS on X, LinkedIn, and Instagram, or subscribe to email updates for announcements of additional dataset releases throughout the year.