Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for the Study of Strategic Transportation Data Needs

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780309051569

TRB Special Report 234 - Data for Decisions: Requirements for National Transportation Policy Making 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.