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Preface
Congress
requires the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) of the Research and
Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) to report on transportation
statistics to the President and Congress. This Transportation Statistics
Annual Report is the 13th such report prepared in response to this
congressional mandate, laid out in 49 U.S.C. 111 (1). In addition to presenting
the state of transportation statistics, the report focuses on transportation
indicators pertinent to the Strategic Plan of the U.S. Department of
Transportation; the RITA report, Transportation Vision for 2030; and the
13 topics specified in the Safe, Accountability, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users, under 49 U.S.C. III(c)(5).
The
BTS publication, National Transportation Statistics (NTS), a companion
to this annual report, has more comprehensive and longer time-series data than
could be accommodated here. NTS, which is updated regularly, is available
online at www.bts.gov.
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