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Information Quality

Information Quality

BTS obtained the data in this report from many sources, including federal government agencies, private industries, and associations. Some of the data are based on samples and are subject to sampling variability. Data from all sources may be subject to omissions and...

Data Gaps

Data Gaps

Resource constraints are now causing reductions in scope, postponement, delays, and in some cases discontinuation of several long-term data series important to understanding changes in the field of transportation. RITA/BTS, for example, will not conduct a previously planned long-...

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...