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DOT Moves Airline Statistics Office to Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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DOT 116-95
Roslyn Kaiser
202-366-5571
Timothy E. Carmody
202-366-9059
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Wednesday, June 21, 1995 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that
the Office of Airline Statistics has been transferred to the
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) from the department's
Research and Special Programs Administration.
Dr. T. R. Lakshmanan, Director of BTS, noted that "This
action reflects the Clinton Administration's and Transportation
Secretary Federico Pe¤a's commitment to reinventing government
by streamlining operations. BTS, established in December 1992 as
a multi-modal statistical agency,is a natural location for the
airline statistical functions."
The office will be renamed the Office of Airline Information
(OAI) to emphasize its role in providing accurate data, data
analysis and customer services. Dr. Lakshmanan said, "The
transfer comes at a time of tremendous change, due to deregula-
tion of the airline industry and the information revolution.
This creates new challenges and opportunities for the office,
which must provide data for new needs in a manner that matches
the current state of technology."
OAI collects and analyzes airline passenger, cargo, traffic and
financial data. This information provides the government with
consistent and comprehensive economic and market data on individual
airline operations and is used in negotiating international bilateral
aviation agreements. It also is valued greatly by the aviation,
travel and tourism communities for such things as measuring on-time
performance, denied boarding information and market analysis of
trends.
Timothy E. Carmody has been named acting director of the new BTS
office, located in Room 4125, K-25, BTS, Department of Transportation,
400 7th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20590-0001. The transfer
became effective May 28, 1995.
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