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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2023–0053] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Revision of a Currently Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), U.S. 

Department of Transportation (USDOT). 

ACTION: Notice of request for revision of 

currently approved information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for renewal of an 

existing information collection that is 

summarized below SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. We are required to publish 

this notice in the Federal Register by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

February 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

FHWA–2023–0053 by any of the 

following methods: 

• Website: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel Jenkins, 202–366–1067, 

Daniel.jenkins@dot.gov, National Travel 

Behavior Data Program Manager, 

Federal Highway Administration, Office 

of Policy, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Room E83–414, Washington, DC 20590, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: f 

Title: 2024 Next Generation National 

Household Travel Survey (NextGen 

NHTS). 

OMB Control #: 2125–0545. 

Background: Title 23, United States 

Code, section 502 authorizes the 

USDOT to carry out advanced research 

and transportation research to measure 

the performance of the surface 

transportation systems in the US, 

including the efficiency, energy use, air 

quality, congestion, and safety of the 

highway and intermodal transportation 

systems. The USDOT is charged with 

the overall responsibility to obtain 

current information on national patterns 

of travel, which establishes a data base 

to better understand travel behavior, 

evaluate the use of transportation 

facilities, and gauge the impact of the 

USDOT’s policies and programs. 

The NHTS is the USDOT’s 

authoritative nationally representative 

data source for daily passenger travel. 

This inventory of travel behavior 

reflects travel mode (e.g., private 

vehicles, public transportation, walk 

and bike) and trip purpose (e.g., travel 

to work, school, recreation, personal/ 

family trips) by U.S. household 

residents. Survey results are used by 

Federal and State agencies to monitor 

the performance and adequacy of 

current facilities and infrastructure, and 

to plan for future needs. 

The collection and analysis of 

national transportation data has been of 

critical importance for nearly half a 

century. Previous surveys were 

conducted in 1969, 1977, 1983, 1990, 

1995, 2001, 2009, 2017 and 2022. The 

current survey will be the tenth in this 

series, and allow researchers, planners, 

and officials at the State and Federal 

levels to monitor travel trends. 

Data from the NHTS are widely used 

to support research needs within the 

USDOT, and State and local agencies, in 

addition to responding to queries from 

Congress, the research community and 

the media on important issues. Current 

and recent topics of interest include: 

• Travel to work patterns by 

transportation mode for infrastructure 

improvements and congestion 

reduction, 

• Access to public transit, paratransit, 

and rail services by various 

demographic groups, 

• Measures of travel by mode to 

establish exposure rates for risk 

analyses, 

• Support for Federal, State, and local 

planning activities and policy 

evaluation, 

• Active transportation by walk and 

bike to establish the relationship to 

public health issues, 

• Vehicle usage for energy 

consumption analysis, 

• Traffic behavior of specific 

demographic groups such as Millennials 

and the aging population. 

Within the USDOT, the Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA) holds 

responsibility for technical and funding 

coordination. The National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA), 

and the Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics (BTS) are also primary data 

users and have historically participated 

in project planning and financial 

support. 

Proposed Data Acquisition 

Methodology 

NHTS data are collected from a 

stratified random sample of households 

that represent a broad range of 

geographic and demographic 

characteristics. Letters and postcards are 

sent to selected households requesting 

some basic demographic and contact 

information and inviting them to 

participate in the diary survey. The 

recruitment survey is completed on the 

study website. 

Households who complete the 

recruitment survey are subsequently 

invited to complete a diary survey. All 

household members aged 5 and older 

are eligible. The household is assigned 

to record their travel on a specific day 

and asked to note every trip taken 

during a 24-hour period. Based upon 

their preferences, the travel information 

is then reported through a survey 

website, a smartphone app., or through 

a telephone interview. Reminders are 

sent periodically to households who do 

not respond within the expected 

timeframe. Monetary incentives are 

provided in increasing amounts for all 

households that complete the survey. 

The survey will collect data during an 

entire 12-month period so that all 365 

days of the year including weekends 

and holidays are accounted for. A total 

of 7,500 households will comprise the 

national sample for the 2024 survey. 

Issues Related to Sampling. The 

sampling design reflects the U.S. 

household trends of decreasing landline 

telephone ownership and increasing 

access to the internet. The 2024 

NextGen NHTS will leverage this shift 

in technology, in particular the move 

away from home telephone usage, to 

structure a research design that uses 

mail, web, smartphone app. and 

telephone data collection modes. The 

revised methodological approach starts 

with a national address-based sample 

(ABS). 

The survey sample will be drawn 

from the ABS frame maintained by 

Marketing Systems Group (MSG). It 

originates from the U.S. Postal Service 

(USPS) Computerized Delivery 

Sequence file (CDS) and is updated on 

a monthly basis. MSG also provides the 

ability to match some auxiliary variables 

(e.g., race/ethnicity, education, 

household income) to a set of sampled 


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addresses. MSG geocodes their entire 

ABS frame, so block-, block group-, and 

tract-level characteristics from the 

Decennial Census and the American 

Community Survey (ACS) may be 

appended to addresses and used for 

sampling and/or data collection 

purposes. 

Sample Size. Completed surveys will 

be obtained from a nationally 

representative sample of 7,500 

households. Assuming response rates of 

26 percent for the recruitment stage, 60 

percent at the diary stage, and a 

residency rate of 92 percent for sampled 

addresses, a total of 53,000 sampled 

addresses will be required to attain the 

targeted 7,500 responding households. 

Stratification. Census division will be 

used for stratification, with an urban/ 

rural classification used as substrata. 

The target sample size (of responding 

households) will then be initially 

allocated among the strata according to 

the proportion of addresses falling in 

the stratum determined by the counts of 

addresses from the American 

Community Survey (ACS). 

With the ABS approach, identifying 

targeted areas that correspond to those 

for which estimates can be developed 

from the NHTS data are straightforward. 

Geocoding and GIS processing can be 

used to link addresses to States and 

counties in a highly reliable fashion. 

There can be some ambiguity for 

addresses that are P.O. boxes or are 

listed as rural route addresses. These 

can be handled in a routine manner 

with a set of well-defined rules as such 

addresses will represent only a small 

proportion of the population. Thus, no 

important issues arise in the definition 

of areas with an ABS sample design that 

relies on mail for initial contact, as is 

the case with the proposed approach. 

Assignments for recording travel data 

by sampled households will be equally 

distributed across all days to ensure a 

balanced day-of-week distribution. The 

sample (of recruitment letters to 

households) will be released 

periodically through a process that will 

control the balance of travel days by 

month. 

Data Collection Methods 

An updated approach to enhancing 

survey response has been developed. 

This includes providing progressive 

monetary incentives and using a mail 

with push-to-web recruitment survey 

that is just 5 minutes in length. Upon 

completing the recruitment survey, 

household members aged 5 and older 

are offered the opportunity to provide 

their travel on an assigned travel day via 

a smartphone app. or web using a 

unique personal identification number 

(PIN) or telephone interview. 

Information Proposed for Collection 

Recruitment. The survey will begin 

with mailing the sampled households 

an initial invitation letter followed by 

postcard and letter reminders. The letter 

will contain a $2 cash incentive and 

promised incentives (up to $20) to 

encourage diary completion. 

Participants will complete the 

recruitment survey on the web. The 

survey is designed to collect key 

household information (e.g., 

enumeration of household members), 

basic demographic characteristics (e.g., 

age, gender, etc.), and personal contact 

information (e.g., email address and 

telephone number). To support 

recruitment, the study will provide a 

toll-free number on survey materials. 

The study website will provide 

responses to likely questions and will 

serve as the portal to the survey. 

Diary Retrieval. The travel day diary 

data will be collected from respondents 

either from self-reporting via the web or 

a smartphone app., or from 

professionally trained interviewers 

using a computer-assisted telephone 

interviewing (CATI) system. The 

questionnaire and back-end systems 

allow for sophisticated branching and 

skip patterns to enhance data retrieval 

by asking only those questions that are 

necessary and appropriate for the 

individual participant. Look-up tables 

are included at the back end to assist 

with information such as vehicle makes 

and models. Google API is used to assist 

in identifying specific place names and 

locations. The location data for the 

participant’s home, workplace, or 

school are stored and automatically 

inserted in the dataset for trips after the 

first report. Household rostering is a list 

of all vehicles and persons in the 

household that allows a trip to be 

reported from one household member 

and can include another household 

member who travel together to be 

inserted into the record for the second 

person. This automatic insert of 

information reduces the burden of the 

second respondent to be queried about 

a trip already reported by the initial 

respondent. Data range, consistency and 

edit checks are automatically 

programmed to reduce reporting errors, 

survey length, and maintain the flow of 

information processing. Data cross 

checks also help reduce the burden by 

ensuring that the reporting is consistent 

within each trip. 

All respondent facing materials and 

instruments will be reviewed for 

Section 508 compliance using the rules 

specified in sections 1194.22—‘‘Webbased intranet and internet information 

and applications’’ and 1194.23— 

‘‘Telecommunications products.’’ All 

materials will be available in both 

English and Spanish language forms. 

Spanish translations will be developed 

using industry standards and will apply 

reverse-translation protocols. 

Estimated Burden Hours for 

Information Collection 

Frequency: This is a periodic study 

last conducted in 2022. 

Respondents. A stratified random 

sample of 7,500 households across the 

50 States and the District of Columbia 

will be included in the survey. 

Household will include an average of 

2.5 members for a total of 18,750 

individual respondents 5 years and 

older to the diary survey. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response. It will take approximately 5 

minutes per household member to 

complete the recruitment survey, and 20 

minutes per eligible household member 

to complete the diary survey. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours. It is estimated that a total of 

29,375 persons will complete the 

survey. This includes 5,000 persons in 

households who completed just the 

recruitment survey and did not 

participate in the diary survey and 

16,875 persons who completed both the 

recruitment and diary surveys. This 

results in approximately 6,667 hours of 

support for this data collection effort 

assuming an average of 5 minutes per 

household for the recruitment, and 20 

minutes per household member (aged 5 

and older) for the diary survey. 

Public Comments Invited 

You are asked to comment on any 

aspect of this information collection, 

including: (1) whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the USDOT’s performance, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) the data acquisition 

methods; (3) the accuracy of the 

USDOT’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (4) the 

types of data being acquired; (5) ways to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(6) ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. The agency 

will summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Authority:The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. 


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Issued on: December 11, 2023. 

Jazmyne Lewis, 

Information Collection Officer, Federal 

Highway Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27449 Filed 12–13–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2023–0181] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Renewal of an Approved 

Information Collection: Motor Carrier 

Records Change Form 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for its 

review and approval and invites public 

comment. The purpose of this ICR 

titled, ‘‘Motor Carrier Records Change 

Form,’’ is to collect information 

required by the Office of Registration to 

process name changes, address changes, 

and reinstatements of operating 

authority for motor carriers, freight 

forwarders, and brokers. FMCSA 

requests approval to renew an ICR 

titled, ‘‘Motor Carrier Records Change 

Form.’’ 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received on or before February 12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Docket Number FMCSA– 

2023–0181 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Dockets Operations; U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Dockets 

Operations, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building, Ground 

Floor, Washington, DC 20590–0001 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

To be sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 366–9317 or (202) 366– 

9826 before visiting Dockets Operations. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

instructions on submitting comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jeffrey Secrist, Office of Registration, 

Chief, Registration, Licensing, and 

Insurance Division, DOT, FMCSA, West 

Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590; 

(202) 385–2367; jeff.secrist@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Instructions 

All submissions must include the 

Agency name and docket number. For 

detailed instructions on submitting 

comments, see the Public Participation 

heading below. Note that all comments 

received will be posted without change 

to https://www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided. Please see the Privacy Act 

heading below. 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

If you submit a comment, please 

include the docket number for this 

notice (FMCSA–2023–0181), indicate 

the specific section of this document to 

which your comment applies, and 

provide a reason for each suggestion or 

recommendation. You may submit your 

comments and material online or by fax, 

mail, or hand delivery, but please use 

only one of these means. FMCSA 

recommends that you include your 

name and a mailing address, an email 

address, or a phone number in the body 

of your document so FMCSA can 

contact you if there are questions 

regarding your submission. If you want 

us to notify you that we received your 

comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard, or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments online. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

https://www.regulations.gov/docket/ 

FMCSA-2023-0181/document, click on 

this notice, click ‘‘Comment,’’ and type 

your comment into the text box on the 

following screen. 

If you submit your comments by mail 

or hand delivery, submit them in an 

unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 

11 inches, suitable for copying and 

electronic filing. 

Comments received after the comment 

closing date will be included in the 

docket and will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

Privacy Act 

In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), 

DOT solicits comments from the public 

to better inform its rulemaking process. 

DOT posts these comments, without 

edit, including any personal information 

the commenter provides, to 

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 

14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

www.dot.gov/privacy. 

Background 

FMCSA registers for-hire motor 

carriers under 49 U.S.C. 13902, surface 

freight forwarders under 49 U.S.C. 

13903, and property brokers under 49 

U.S.C. 13904. Each registration is 

effective from the date specified under 

49 U.S.C. 13905(c). ‘‘Procedures for 

changing the name or business form of 

a motor carrier, freight forwarder, or 

property broker,’’ (49 CFR 365.413) 

states that motor carriers, forwarders, 

and brokers must submit the required 

information to FMCSA’s Office of 

Registration requesting the change. 

Paragraph (f) of 49 CFR 360.3 mentions 

fees that FMCSA collects for ‘‘petition 

for reinstatement of revoked operating 

authority,’’ but does not provide any 

specifics for the content that petition 

should take. 

Motor carriers, freight forwarders, and 

property brokers are required to use 

Form MCSA–5889 to request a name or 

address change and to request 

reinstatement of a revoked operating 

authority. Respondents can submit the 

form online through the Licensing and 

Insurance (L&I) website, by fax, or by 

mail. According to data collected 

between 2020 and 2022, annually, 

approximately 1 percent of forms are 

submitted by mail; 7 percent are 

submitted by fax; and 92 percent are 

submitted online. The information 

collected is then entered in the L&I 

database by FMCSA staff. 

Form MCSA–5889 enables FMCSA to 

maintain up-to-date records so that the 

Agency can recognize the entity in 

question in case of enforcement actions 

or other procedures required to ensure 

that the carrier is fit, willing, and able 

to provide for-hire transportation 

services, and so that entities whose 

operating authority has been revoked 

can resume operation if they are not 

otherwise blocked from doing so. This 

multi-purpose form, filed by registrants 

on a voluntary, as-needed basis, 

simplifies the process of gathering the 

information needed to process the 

entities’ requests in a timely manner, 

with the least amount of effort for all 

parties involved. 


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