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Box A - Information Quality Guidelines for Federal Transportation Data

Box A - Information Quality Guidelines for Federal Transportation Data

As a federal statistical organization, BTS has its own statistical standards and participates with other federal statistical organizations to improve the quality of statistical information. The practices of other...

State of Transportation Statistics

State of Transportation Statistics

U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) legislative mandate requires annual submission of this Transportation Statistics Annual Report to the President...

Global Connectivity

Global Connectivity

Transportation is an essential component of the domestic and world economy.  As a sizable element of the country’s gross domestic product, transportation employs millions of people and consumes substantial goods and services. It also enables economic growth and...

Box 2 - Personal Travel

Box 2 - Personal Travel

The National Household Travel Survey, last conducted in 2001, is a U.S. Department of Transportation effort sponsored by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Highway Administration to...

State of Transportation Statistics

State of Transportation Statistics

Resource constraints in the past year have resulted in the reduction in scope or discontinuation of two transportation statistics data series that extend back several decades—the passenger travel and vehicle inventory and use surveys.

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Box 1 - Domestic Freight Shipments

Box 1 - Domestic Freight Shipments

The Research and Innovative Technology Administration’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Federal Highway Administration have developed new estimates of the amount of freight shipped in the United States. The new estimates combine data from...

Extent, connectivity, and condition of the transportation system

Extent, connectivity, and condition of the transportation system Extent The United States has about 4 million miles of roads, 140,000 F of railroad, more than 1.6 million miles of oil and gas pipelines, and 26,000 miles of navigable waterways. (Table L-1 in Chapter 2 and Table 1) If laid end to...

Safety and Security

Safety and Security

Reducing transportation-related deaths, injuries, and property damage is a priority goal of the transportation community. In most categories fatality rates in relation to miles traveled have declined over time, which means the transportation system is safer than in prior...

Energy and Environment

Energy and Environment

As people travel and freight is transported, damage can occur to the human and natural environment. Transportation also impacts the environment when transportation equipment and fuels are produced and infrastructure is built, during repair and maintenance of...