Appendix A: Legislative Responsibilities
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Appendix A Table–Legislative Responsibilities, including Cross Reference
BTS compiles these and other statistics under Section 52011: Moving Ahead for Progress in the21st Century Act (Public Law No. 112-141), which requires information on:
- transportation safety across all modes and intermodally;
- the state of good repair of United States transportation infrastructure;
- the extent, connectivity, and condition of the transportation system, building on the national transportation atlas database developed;
- economic efficiency across the entire transportation sector;
- the effects of the transportation system on global and domestic economic competitiveness;
- demographic, economic, and other variables influencing travel behavior, including choice of transportation mode and goods movement;
- transportation-related variables that influence the domestic economy and global competitiveness;
- economic costs and impacts for passenger travel and freight movement;
- intermodal and multimodal passenger movement;
- intermodal and multimodal freight movement; and
- consequences of transportation for the human and natural environment