The Long-Distance Travel and Tourism Data Program Workplan was created as a component to the proposed Long- Distance Travel and Tourism Data Program (TTDP or The Program). The creation of components like this are in alignment with the National Travel & Tourism Infrastructure Strategic Plan (NTTISP) [USDOT 2024], the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT’s) Office of International Transportation and Trade (OST-X20) and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). This component has two current phases:

The first phase focuses on planning and scoping, while the second phase focuses on the Program’s implementation and maintenance. For the first phase of the Program, the purpose is to gather the requirements of the NTTISP alongside stakeholder needs, compare those requirements to currently available data, identify data gaps, and develop a Long-Distance TTDP workplan and Long-Distance TTDP roadmap to inform the second phase of the Program. Activities supporting the development of this workplan include extensive stakeholder outreach, in-depth state-of-practice scans, identification of existing data sources, and research into emerging survey methods and data science techniques that USDOT can use to develop relevant surveys, data products, and tools.

This workplan is designed to guide OST-X20 and BTS staff through the initial planning activities in the first year of the Program and then to build upon those foundational activities in future Program years. The following are objectives of this workplan:

• Build on the strategies laid out in the NTTISP [USDOT 2024]
• Incorporate stakeholder needs and state-of-practice research
• Present content in a flexible format that allows OST-X20 and BTS to assemble program components based on the administration’s priorities when funding becomes available

Learn more by reading the complete Long-Distance TTDP Workplan.