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Congress requires the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) to report on transportation statistics to the President and Congress. This Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR) is the ninth such report prepared in response to this congressional mandate, laid out in 49 U.S.C...
SOURCES U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration, 1999 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance (Washington, DC: 2000). U.S....
Freight data are collected from both shippers and carriers, but no record follows a shipment through its entire trip. Shippers often have only partial information on the mode and routing of the shipment. The...
Experimental indices of overall transportation output under development by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics show that some types of transportation tend to rise and fall in advance of corresponding changes in the...
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Category of user Who the users are What the data are used for Policymakers Congress; officials of the U.S. Department of Transportation and other Executive Branch agencies; state and local agencies; metropolitan planning...Transportation statistics arise from an array of data systems each constructed for specific, sometimes narrow, purposes. These systems exist much like a collection of pieces from different jigsaw puzzles of the same picture. The pieces answer some...
Two national estimates of passenger-miles of travel (pmt) are available; they differ in coverage, methodology, and other factors. The 2000 pmt data presented in this section come from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) publication, National...