Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)
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Transportation Statistics Annual Report

Overview

The Transportation Statistics Annual Report (TSAR), a Congressionally mandated publication, provides a data overview of U.S. transportation issues. Each TSAR has two essential components: a review of the state of transportation statistics with recommendations for improvements and a presentation of the data.

TSAR, first published in 1994, has been redesigned every few years. The most recent format was introduced with the TSAR published in October 2003. In this TSAR all transportation data and analysis are captured in one Indicators chapter with 15 topics. Most of these topics were specified in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Act of 1991, which originally authorized the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS).