IMPORTANT RESPONDENT INFORMATION

• All information reported should reflect only your calendar year 2024 ferry operations

• On the online questionnaire, unique operational information has been pre-populated on each individual operator questionnaire.  If you had any ferry vessels, terminals, and/or route segments in calendar year 2024 that are not pre-populated within your operation’s online questionnaire, please add the additional information. Visit https://survey.bts.gov/ncfo/ to fill out the questionnaire online.

• Paper questionnaires can also be utilized for the 2024 census

• There will be no option for paper questionnaires with pre-printed operator information.

• Preprinted brochures, schedules, etc. may not be substituted for responses to the items on this census form

• Please print and attach as many sheets of each question that you may need. 

• Please return all paper questionnaires in an enclosed envelope to:

  April Gadsby

  US Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Transportation Statistics, RTS-32, E34-403

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E.

  Washington, D.C.  20590

  If you need assistance, please email Ferry@dot.gov