Thursday, December 19, 2019 – The Transportation Statistics Annual Report 2019 (TSAR), a congressionally-mandated report, is now available from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). This edition of the report provides highlights of recent legislation, specifically the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act and the Geospatial Data Act of 2018, that call attention to the importance of credible statistics for public decision-making.

Topics of focus in this year’s report include:

• changes in transportation technology;
• the state of statistics regarding transportation and related topics, and;
• emerging data sources that can work in concert with traditional statistical programs.

In addition, the report discusses actions BTS is taking in response to new and longstanding challenges in an effort to continually develop credible and relevant transportation statistics.