Transportation Safety CD-ROM Now Available from DOT

Contact DOT 222-96 BTS Product Line 202-366-DATA

Thursday, October 3, 1996 -- U. S. Secretary of Transportation Federico Pe¤a today announced that information on transportation safety is now available on CD-ROM, produced by the department's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).

The Transportation Safety CD-ROM is another product in the State and Metropolitan Analysis for Regional Transportation (SMART) series. It offers access to over 200 safety-related reports, accident studies, award winning community programs, program planners, data sets, and youth programs collected from metropolitan planning organizations, state departments of transportation, the federal government and professional associations.

A sample of safety topics includes: rail, roadway, motor vehicles, transit, bicycle and pedestrian safety and occupant protection. Users of this CD-Rom also can link, via Internet browser, to the National Transportation Library, which offers access to new safety materials and more than 1,500 transportation documents.

The SMART Project involves gathering the collective wisdom of the transportation planning community and making the materials generated from a variety of sources easy to use and share. Cooperating agencies include the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and transportation planners from around the country. Users are encouraged to forward their own materials to BTS to place on-line in the National Transportation Library, or to include in an upcoming CD-ROM. BTS requests materials in electronic form. Please direct questions or comments about the Transportation Safety CD-ROM, the SMART Project, and the on-line National Transportation Library to robert.zarnetske@bts.gov.

BTS Director Dr. T. R. Lakshmanan said, Accessibility to these data is vital to the transportation community. This product offers transportation planners another opportunity to present their best work to others in the field. By providing material on CD-ROM and the Internet, material that was previously widely scattered is now readily available from one convenient source.

To order a copy of the CD-ROM, contact the Bureau of Transportation Statistics by phone on (202) 366-DATA, FAX on (202) 366-3640, or by writing the Bureau of Transportation Statistics at BTS/DOT, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590. The data may also be ordered on the Internet worldwide web at www.bts.gov under Products and Services.