The Transportation Services index (TSI) for freight rose 0.5 percent in January from the December 2005 level, rising after a one-month decrease.
The Freight TSI January 2006 level is 0.5 percent lower than the previous January of 2005, the first decline from January of the previous year since 2002.
TSI is a single seasonally adjusted index of the month-to-month changes in the output of services provided by the for-hire transportation industries, including railroad, air, truck, inland waterways, pipeline, and local transit.