Data for Decisions
Subtitle: Requirements for National Transportation Policy Making (Special Report (National Research Council (U S) Transportation Research Board))
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: January 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780309051569
Subjects: Transport planning & policy; Transportation Policy And Planning; Decision making; Information services; Planning; Transportation; Transportation and state; United States; Reference
Description: Examines data requirements necessary to support strategic transportation policy making and the institutional changes necessary to make those data available on a permanent basis. The report calls for the establishment of a statistical agency within USDOT (this recommendation became helped create the Bureau of Transportation Statistics), the development of performance indicators, and regular reporting to the Secretary and Congress on important trends in system performance.