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BTS Transportation Services Index

The checked table has 320 monthly U.S. observations from January 2000 through August 2026. It uses the 2000 annual average as the index base and covers for-hire freight and passenger transportation using available modal series.

Open data.bts.gov
Signal Scoredraft model
84
Access
No key · none
20
Licence clarity
Custom · terms linked
13
Evidence
4 source links checked
18
Freshness
verified 2026-11-01
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage
13

// Terms and limits

Access
none
Free tier
Keyless public JSON and CSV API plus full export. Provider query and usage quotas were not stated.
Rate limits
Not stated
Licence
Customterms
Licence note
The BTS dataset metadata labels the table "Public Domain U.S. Government". U.S. government works are not protected by U.S. copyright, while separately identified third-party material may carry other rights.
Attribution
No attribution requirement recorded.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-01

  1. 01data.bts.gov/Research-and-Statistics/Transportation-Services-Index-and-Seasonally-Adjus/bw6n-ddqk
  2. 02data.bts.gov/api/views/bw6n-ddqk
  3. 03data.bts.gov/resource/bw6n-ddqk.json?$select=obs_date,tsi_freight,tsi_passenger,tsi_total&$order=obs_date%20desc&$limit=3
  4. 04data.bts.gov/resource/bw6n-ddqk.csv?$limit=5

// Good for

transport-shippinghistorical-datatime-seriesmacro-economicflows

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
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Reply · selected fields
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    "https://data.bts.gov/resource/bw6n-ddqk.json?$select=obs_date,tsi_freight,tsi_passenger,tsi_total&$order=obs_date%20desc&$limit=3",
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