Measuring Personal Travel and Goods Movement A Review of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics' Surveys -- Special Report 277 (2003) / Chapter Skim
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In particular, the establishment of BTS was intended to bring greater coordination and comparability to trans portation data, to improve quality standards, and to fill data gaps. In this report, the role of BTS's major survey programs in providing transportation data to fulfill the needs of a broad spectrum of users is ad dressed, and opportunities for improving these surveys in the future are identified.
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The study committee was asked to review BTS's current sur vey programs in light of · Transportation data needs for policy planning and research and · Characteristics and functions of an effective statistical agency. For each of the agency's three major surveys -- the National House hold Travel Survey (NHTS)
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In the present report, the committee draws on the outcomes of its reviews of individual surveys to identify major themes and crosscutting issues and to offer advice to BTS on ways of making its surveys more effective. FRAMEWORK FOR EVALUATION To inform its review of BTS's current survey programs, the committee sought to (a)
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found that BTS had not evolved into a statistical agency fulfilling a broad mandate to im prove the quality and relevance of transportation data to address users' in formation needs. Rather, during its first 4 years, BTS operated primarily 2 BTS is also charged with more specific tasks relating to the National Transportation Library, the National Transportation Atlas Database, international data, and aviation and motor carrier information.
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No attempt was made to grade BTS systematically on all the criteria listed in Box 1-1, but the committee drew on these principles and practices to guide its evaluation and develop its recommendations to BTS for improving the agency's survey programs. BOX 1-1 Principles and Practices for a Federal Statistical Agency Principles · Relevance to policy issues · Credibility among data users · Trust among data providers Practices · Clearly defined and well-accepted mission · Strong position of independence · Continual development of more useful data · Openness about the data provided · Wide dissemination of data · Cooperation with data users · Fair treatment of data providers · Commitment to quality and professional standards of practice · Active research program · Professional advancement of staff · Coordination and cooperation with other statistical agencies Source: Martin et al.
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The commit tee's conclusions on major themes and crosscutting issues relevant to BTS's current survey programs are presented in Chapter 3. The com mittee's recommendations for making these surveys more effective in meeting the needs of a broad spectrum of data users are presented in Chapter 4.
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