Transportation & freight

Highways and trucks

AADT (annual average daily traffic) is TxDOT's estimate of all vehicles passing a count station on an average day, both directions combined, for the stations in Potter and Randall counties. It counts vehicles, not cargo: an empty truck counts the same as a loaded one. Truck shares come from TxDOT's 2024 Roadway Inventory, which assigns each road segment a truck percentage and names the count station behind it; trucks a day is TxDOT's published figure for that segment (2024 AADT times the truck share). Combination trucks are trucks pulling one or more trailers, such as tractor-trailers; single-unit trucks carry their load on one frame. Distances are straight-line from downtown (our calculation).

The outermost count station on each highway

For each interstate, U.S. and state highway, the count station farthest from downtown in the two counties, in each direction the highway runs (our selection; at least 8 miles out). Sorted by 2025 traffic.

Of these stations, I-40 west of town has the highest truck share, 51%. A truck passing through on I-40 is counted at both the east and west stations, so the rows can't be added up.

Traffic at the four busiest of those stations, 2006–2025

Busiest count stations, 2025

All 175 main-lane stations on state highways in the two counties, ranked by 2025 traffic; the top ten.

Vehicles a day, both directions. TxDOT data last edited Jun 29, 2026.

Rail

From the Federal Railroad Administration's inventory of highway-rail crossings, which railroads and state agencies keep current. Train counts are as reported by the railroad for each crossing: through trains in daylight and at night, on a typical day. Most were counted in 2023; the most recent record was revised Sep 5, 2026. Counts can differ between crossings on the same line, and each row shows the railroad's figure for one crossing.

The inventory lists 164 open crossings in Potter and Randall counties (109 public, 55 private): 121 at street level, 25 where the railroad passes over the road and 18 where it passes under. 163 are BNSF Railway's. None reports passenger trains. It also keeps 184 records of crossings that have been closed.

Subdivisions are the railroad's names for stretches of its lines. "Most" and "median" are through trains a day (daylight plus night) across the line's open crossings in the two counties that report any; median is our calculation. Top speed is the highest maximum timetable speed reported at those crossings. Crossings on yard and industry tracks, which report no through trains, are left out of the table.

Air

Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport (AMA). Boardings are the FAA's calendar-year count of passengers boarding commercial flights at the airport. Freight is the weight air carriers report loading onto flights departing AMA (DOT Form 41, Schedule T-100); freight arriving at AMA is not in this dataset.

2025 boardings were 401,948, against 341,132 in 2015. Carriers reported loading 66,939 lb of freight onto departing flights in 2025. AMA does not appear in the FAA's all-cargo landed-weight tables for any year from 2015 to 2025; those tables list airports by the landed weight of aircraft carrying only cargo.

Boardings: FAA. Freight and mail: BTS, T-100 segment summary by origin airport, monthly figures summed by year (our calculation); 2026 has 4 months so far (15,569 lb of freight through April 2026).