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1 Introduction
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... develop a consistent, easily understood, and useful set of key indicators of the transportation system. The NRC's Committee on National Statistics and its Transportation Research Board, which conducted these studies, convened a workshop on lune 13, 2000.~ The purpose of the Workshop on Transportation Indicators was to discuss issues relating to transportation indicators and provide the Bureau of Transportation Statistics with new ideas for issues to address.
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... The authorizing legislation charges BTS to work with other USDOT administrations, the states, and other federal officials to implement a long-term program for collecting and analyzing data on the performance of the national transportation system. From its inception, BTS has compiled myriad indicators based on data that are regularly collected on the transportation system.
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... Miller, Virginia Transportation Research Council Douglas Robertson, Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina Nathaniel Schenker, National Center for Health Statistics BTS Liaison: Terry Klein, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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... For mobility, indicators included hours of delay and time and distance of commute trips. For economic growth, indicators included percentage on-time performance, average daily value of inventory in transit, value of goods damaged in transit, and cost per trip and unit of travel.
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... She discussed the American Time-Use Survey as it specifically relates to transportation statistics. She presented potential transportation statistics that could be gleaned from the survey, such as the purpose of trips and the time spent traveling.
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