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portation information providers, both public and pri-
vate, to achieve the goal specified in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(g) NATIONAL
TRANSPORTATION
ATLAS
DATA 
BASE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall develop 
and maintain geospatial data bases that depict—
‘‘(A) transportation networks; 
‘‘(B) flows of people, goods, vehicles, and 
craft over the networks; and 
‘‘(C) social, economic, and environmental 
conditions that affect or are affected by the net-
works. 
‘‘(2) INTERMODAL
NETWORK
ANALYSIS.—The 
data bases shall be able to support intermodal net-
work analysis. 
‘‘(h) MANDATORY
RESPONSE
AUTHORITY
FOR 
FREIGHT
DATA
COLLECTION.—Whoever, being the 
owner, official, agent, person in charge, or assistant to the 
person in charge of any corporation, company, business, 
institution, establishment, or organization of any nature 
whatsoever, neglects or refuses, when requested by the Di-
rector or other authorized officer, employee, or contractor 
of the Bureau, to answer completely and correctly to the 
best of his or her knowledge all questions relating to the 
corporation, company, business, institution, establishment,
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or other organization, or to make available records or sta-
tistics in his or her official custody, contained in a data 
collection request prepared and submitted under the au-
thority of subsection (c)(1), shall be fined not more than 
$500; but if he or she willfully gives a false answer to 
such a question, he or she shall be fined not more than 
$10,000. 
‘‘(i) RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.—The 
Secretary may make grants to, or enter into cooperative 
agreements or contracts with, public and nonprofit private 
entities (including State transportation departments, met-
ropolitan planning organizations, and institutions of high-
er education) for—
‘‘(1) investigation of the subjects specified in 
subsection (c)(5) and research and development of 
new methods of data collection, standardization, 
management, integration, dissemination, interpreta-
tion, and analysis; 
‘‘(2) demonstration programs by States, local 
governments, and metropolitan planning organiza-
tions to harmonize data collection, reporting, man-
agement, storage, and archiving to simplify data 
comparisons across jurisdictions; 
‘‘(3) development of electronic clearinghouses of 
transportation data and related information, as part
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of the National Transportation Library under sub-
section (f); and 
‘‘(4) development and improvement of methods 
for sharing geographic data, in support of the na-
tional transportation atlas data base under sub-
section (g) and the National Spatial Data Infra-
structure developed under Executive Order No. 
12906. 
‘‘(j) LIMITATIONS ON STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION.—
Nothing in this section shall be construed—
‘‘(1) to authorize the Bureau to require any 
other department or agency to collect data; or 
‘‘(2) to reduce the authority of any other officer 
of the Department of Transportation to collect and 
disseminate data independently. 
‘‘(k) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN DISCLOSURES.—
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—An officer, employee or 
contractor of the Bureau may not—
‘‘(A) make any disclosure in which the 
data provided by an individual or organization 
under subsection (c) can be identified; 
‘‘(B) use the information provided under 
subsection (c) for a nonstatistical purpose; or 
‘‘(C) permit anyone other than an indi-
vidual authorized by the Director to examine
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any individual report provided under subsection 
(c). 
‘‘(3) INFORMING
RESPONDENT
OF
USE
OF 
DATA.—In a case in which the Bureau is authorized 
by statute to collect data or information for a non-
statistical purpose, the Director shall clearly distin-
guish the collection of the data or information, by 
rule and on the collection instrument, so as to in-
form a respondent that is requested or required to 
supply the data or information of the nonstatistical 
purpose. 
‘‘(l) TRANSPORTATION
STATISTICS
ANNUAL
RE-
PORT.—The Director shall transmit to the President and 
Congress a Transportation Statistics Annual Report which 
shall include information on items referred to in sub-
section (c)(5), documentation of methods used to obtain 
and ensure the quality of the statistics presented in the 
report, and recommendations for improving transportation 
statistical information. 
‘‘(m) DATA ACCESS.—The Director shall have access 
to transportation and transportation-related information 
in the possession of any Federal agency except informa-
tion—
‘‘(1) the disclosure of which to another Federal 
agency is expressly prohibited by law; or
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‘‘(2) the disclosure of which the agency so re-
quested determines would significantly impair the 
discharge of authorities and responsibilities which 
have been delegated to, or vested by law, in such 
agency. 
‘‘(n) PROCEEDS OF DATA PRODUCT SALES.—Not-
withstanding section 3302 of title 31, funds received by 
the Bureau from the sale of data products, for necessary 
expenses incurred, may be credited to the Highway Trust 
Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for the pur-
pose of reimbursing the Bureau for the expenses. 
‘‘(o) ADVISORY COUNCIL ON TRANSPORTATION STA-
TISTICS.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director of the 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics shall establish 
an Advisory Council on Transportation Statistics. 
‘‘(2) FUNCTION.—It shall be the function of the 
Advisory Council established under this subsection 
to—
‘‘(A) advise the Director of the Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics on the quality, reli-
ability, consistency, objectivity, and relevance of 
transportation statistics and analyses collected, 
supported, or disseminated by the Bureau of
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Transportation Statistics and the Department 
of Transportation; 
‘‘(B) provide input to and review the re-
port to Congress under subsection (d)(4); and 
‘‘(C) advise the Director on methods to en-
courage harmonization and interoperability of 
transportation data collected by the Bureau, the 
operating administrations of the Department of 
Transportation, States, local governments, met-
ropolitan planning organizations, and private 
sector entities. 
‘‘(3) MEMBERSHIP.—The Advisory Council es-
tablished under this subsection shall be composed of 
not fewer than 9 and not more than 11 members ap-
pointed by the Director, who are not officers or em-
ployees of the United States. Each member shall 
have expertise in transportation data collection or 
analysis or application; except that 1 member shall 
have expertise in economics, 1 member shall have ex-
pertise in statistics, and 1 member shall have experi-
ence in transportation safety. At least 1 member 
shall be a senior official of a State department of 
transportation. Members shall include representation 
of a cross-section of transportation community 
stakeholders.