Overview

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 specifi ed in the Safe, Accountability, Flexible, Effi cient Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users, under 49 U.S.C. III(c)(5).