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We intend to anticipate the needs of stakeholders, provide the information that is most useful and responsive to them, and demonstrate a thorough understanding of major transportation issues and...
Who are our customers?
...Our mission is to lead in developing transportation data and information of high quality, and to advance their effective use in both public and private transportation decisionmaking.
Our mission is the starting point for all of our programs and...
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a statistical agency within the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), compiles, analyzes, and publishes data and information needed for transportation decisionmaking,...
Each decision we make and each strategy we construct, must meet certain basic norms for how we want to manage. Each of these guiding principles is necessary to ensure the long-term health and survival of BTS:
Mandates We...Performance standards for federal statistical agencies were established through efforts of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy under the Government Performance Responsibility Act for use in completing the Administration...
Establishment. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has been established within the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) of the Department of Transportation (DOT).
Appropriations. BTS is authorized $27...
Our objectives are ambitious; our operating environment and data collection are very decentralized; and our resources are limited. So we must become more efficient. We must streamline our processes and make best use of information technology....
We aim to anticipate the needs of decision makers, provide the information that is most useful to them, and demonstrate a thorough understanding of major transportation issues and trends. If our...
What does this look like over our time horizon through...