Preface
Congress requires the Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS) of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration to
report on transportation statistics to the President and Congress. This Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR) is the
eleventh such report prepared in response to this congressional mandate, laid
out in 49 U.S.C. 111 (j). In addition to presenting the state of transportation
statistics, the report focuses on transportation indicators related to 15
topics. Most of these topics were specified in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act; one was added by the Transportation
Equity Act for the 21st Century.
The BTS publication, National
Transportation Statistics (NTS), a companion to this annual report, has
more comprehensive and longer time series data than could be accommodated here.
NTS is available both in print and online at www.bts.gov.
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