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Bureau of Transportation Statistics

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics is a Federal statistical agency within the Department of Transportation. The program serves as the principal transportation statistics agency providing accurate, relevant, and timely transportation data.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program's purpose is clear and the program's design is free of major flaws. The program has been reviewed and evaluated independently by the National Academy of Science's Transportation Research Board and the program has incorporated recommendations from this board and other advisory committees to improve program effectiveness.
  • The program is designed to reduce duplication at the Federal, State, and local levels. By focusing on intermodal and multi-modal transportation, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics provides analysis of transportation data that bridges geographic and modal lines.
  • The program level strategic and performance plans conform to the agreed-upon performance dimensions of the federal statistical community but not to required Departmental goals.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Addressing identified management deficiencies, especially the need to fill formal leadership positions.
  • Bridging the program's connection to Departmental goals while maintaining an adherence to federal statistical performance dimensions.
  • Developing a new, more systematic performance measure that identifies the program's primary users/customers and solicits feedback from those users.

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