The Bureau of Transportation Statistics Priorities for the Future
Thursday, March 23, 2017
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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| Table of Contents | File Formats |
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| Entire Report |
PDF (1.06MB) |
| Panel on Statistical Programs And Practices of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics | |
| Committee on National Statistics 1996-1997 | |
| Transportation Research Board Executive Committee 1996-1997 | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Executive Summary | |
| The Need for Improved Transportation Statistics | |
| Assessing BTS | |
| Reauthorization | |
| Focusing on Quality | |
| Ensuring Relevance | |
| Building an Agency | |
| 1 Introduction | |
| Methods of Study | |
| The Report | |
| A Note on Reauthorization Legislation | |
| 2 History and Assessment of BTS | |
| Transportation Data Programs in Historical Perspective | |
| Assessing BTS | |
| Recommendation | |
| 3 Focusion on Data Quality | |
| Dimensions of Quality | |
| Staffing | |
| Quality Standards | |
| Documenting Data Quality | |
| Data Evaluation and Improvement | |
| Recommendations | |
| 4 Ensuring Relevance | |
| Dimensions of Relevance | |
| A Vision of a Comprehensive Transportation Data System | |
| A BTS Implementation Plan | |
| Ensuring Relevance: Transportation Indicators | |
| Coordination of Data Collection and Filling Gaps | |
| Identifying User Needs | |
| Analysis Programs | |
| Recommendations | |
| 5 Building an Agency | |
| Ensuring Independence | |
| Building Trust | |
| Attaining Leadership | |
| Recommendations | |
| Acronyms Used in the Report | |
| References | |
| Appendices | |
| A The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991: References to The Bureau of Transportation Statistics | |
| B Selected Statistical Agencies and Programs | |
| C Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency: How BTS Compares | |
| D Improving National Transportation Statistics: Airline Safety as a Case Study | |
| E Descriptions of CD-ROM Products on the BTS Web Site | |
| F Integrating Data and Filling Gaps: The Case of Household Travel | |
| G Biographical Sketches |