Over 107 Million Personal Vehicles Entered the U.S. in 2008
More than 107 million personal vehicles entered the United States in 2008, 28.7 million from Canada and 78.9 million from Mexico, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).Additionally, 10.8 million trucks, 394,000 buses, and 40,000 trains entered the U.S. in 2008.
BTS, a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, released the data today as part of the fifth annual update of the North American Transportation Statistics (NATS) online database.
The NATS online database also includes data on U.S. trade and transportation with Canada and Mexico. Goods valued at more than $964 billion crossed the U.S. border in trade with Canada and Mexico in 2008, 6.1 percent higher than the previous record set in 2007, despite the economic downturn that began in the middle of the year, according BTS.
U.S. merchandise trade with Canada and Mexico, its two largest trading partners, rose by more than $335 billion or by 53.2 percent in the five years between 2003 and 2008.
This fifth annual update of the NATS database contains the most comparable transportation-related data available from the United States, Canada, and Mexico in a one-stop online resource. The NATS database is co-sponsored by BTS and the U.S. Census Bureau with the federal-level transportation and statistical agencies of Canada and Mexico.
See BTS North American Transportation Statistics press release for summary tables and additional data.