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Description:
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"BTS brings a greater degree of coordination, comparability, and quality standards to transportation data …"
"The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) was born as a statistical agency in 1992. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 established BTS for data collection, analysis, and reporting and to ensure the most cost-effective use of transportation-monitoring resources. BTS brings a greater degree of coordination, comparability, and quality standards to transportation data, and to fill important gaps.
"Over the first six years of its existence, BTS established itself with a focus in three key areas, each mandated by legislation: 1) compiling, analyzing, and publishing a comprehensive set of transportation statistics; 2) making statistics readily accessible; and 3) implementing a long term data collection program. Now the agency is beginning to expand its role as it was always envisioned in the legislation - to improve transportation data, to address the information needs of decision makers, and to advance the effective use of data for decision making."
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