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Pareto curve: cumulative traffic share

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Pareto curve: cumulative traffic share
Data through 2024
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In every snapshot year across three decades, the busiest tenth of routes carries most US traffic. That tenth's share was almost unchanged until the mid twenty-tens and has eased since, so the latest curves sit lower.

What this shows: The chart plots 1995, 2005, 2015, 2019 and 2024 on a vertical axis of Cumulative traffic share (%).

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