Slide 11 of 14: Comparison of BTS website with other Agencies with Statistical Content
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General
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Slide 9 of 14: Themes from 2010 BTS Listening Sessions
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Category Number of Comments Percentage of Total Comments Clearinghouse 12 4% Stakeholder Communication 38 12% Customer service 17...Slide 8 of 14: BTS Listening Sessions (2010) -- Stakeholders
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Group Number of Groups Percentage of Total User Groups Academic 92 0.3 All Groups 2 0.01 Associations 45 0.15...Slide 7 of 14: The Challenge
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The transportation community would like one source to serve as an access point to transportation statistics and data; or
The web search approach (e.g., Google) often funnels the public to “BTS,” many of whom leave disappointed and...
Slide 6 of 14: Summary of Current BTS Activities
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Clearing-house Depository Archive Data Warehouse BTS data X X X X DOT data X ? ?...Slide 5 of 14: BTS Data Clearinghouse Activities
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BTS Directory of Data Sources (online search of public data listing)
BTS datasets in data.gov (via USDOT Data Inventory)
Data from BTS Bookstore stored in NTL Digital Repository
Hosting NCFRP-47 Data Dictionary for...
Slide 4 of 14: Definitions
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Clearinghouse: collects and gives out information about a specific thing or topic area; a portal
Depository: stores and disseminates information and data; interchanged with repository when discussing digital or a large amount of information
Archive:...
Slide 3 of 14: MAP-21 Mandate for NTL (49 USC 6304)
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‘‘(a) PURPOSE AND ESTABLISHMENT.—To support the information management and decisionmaking needs of transportation officials at the Federal, State, and local levels, there is established in the Bureau a National Transportation Library which shall—...
Slide 2 of 14: Discussion Outline
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BTS mandate
Definitions
Activities supporting the mandate
The challenge
Stakeholder expectations
Discussion