TranStats Streamlines Data Analysis

TranStats offers analysts several unique features:

• A searchable index of over 100 transportation-related databases across every mode of transportation—with many social and demographic data sets that are commonly used in transportation analysis.
• Selective download—the ability to choose variables of interest and download the data directly to your PC for analysis using any database, spreadsheet, or statistical package.
• Online data documentation—profiles on each database, summary information about the tables that comprise a database, data definitions, and code information for data variables.
• Interactive analytical tools—the ability to do simple statistical summaries, create time series or cross tabulations, generate graphics online, and cut/paste results into reports.
• Interactive mapping—to help visualize geographic data.
• A mapping center—with the full National Transportation Atlas Data Base, as well as applications to easily map DOT Grants and several other key datasets.

Users can explore the data by transportation mode or by subject area, use keyword searches to find relevant data sets, and get online help. Because all the data in TranStats are indexed with a transportation thesaurus, links to other transportation research are easy through the National Transportation Library.