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PUBLIC LAW 109–59—AUG. 10, 2005 the coordination of information collection efforts with other Federal agencies. ‘‘(3) DATA MODERNIZATION.—Continually improving surveys and data collection methods to improve the accuracy and utility of transportation statistics. ‘‘(4) ENCOURAGING DATA STANDARDIZATION.—Encouraging the standardization of data, data collection methods, and data management and storage technologies for data collected by the Bureau, the operating administrations of the Department of Transportation, States, local governments, metropolitan planning organizations, and private sector entities. ‘‘(5) TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS.—Collecting, compiling, analyzing, and publishing a comprehensive set of transportation statistics on the performance and impacts of the national transportation system, including statistics on— ‘‘(A) productivity in various parts of the transportation sector; ‘‘(B) traffic flows for all modes of transportation; ‘‘(C) other elements of the intermodal transportation database established under subsection (e); ‘‘(D) travel times and measures of congestion; ‘‘(E) vehicle weights and other vehicle characteristics; ‘‘(F) demographic, economic, and other variables influencing traveling behavior, including choice of transportation mode and goods movement; ‘‘(G) transportation costs for passenger travel and goods movement; ‘‘(H) availability and use of mass transit (including the number of passengers served by each mass transit authority) and other forms of for-hire passenger travel; ‘‘(I) frequency of vehicle and transportation facility repairs and other interruptions of transportation service; ‘‘(J) safety and security for travelers, vehicles, and transportation systems; ‘‘(K) consequences of transportation for the human and natural environment; ‘‘(L) the extent, connectivity, and condition of the transportation system, building on the national transportation atlas database developed under subsection (g); and ‘‘(M) transportation-related variables that influence the domestic economy and global competitiveness. ‘‘(6) NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE.—Building and disseminating the transportation layer of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure developed under Executive Order No. 12906, including coordinating the development of transportation geospatial data standards, compiling intermodal geospatial data, and collecting geospatial data that is not being collected by others. ‘‘(7) ISSUING GUIDELINES.—Issuing guidelines for the collection of information by the Department required for statistics to be compiled under paragraph (5) in order to ensure that such information is accurate, reliable, relevant, and in a form that permits systematic analysis. ‘‘(8) REVIEW SOURCES AND RELIABILITY OF STATISTICS.— Reviewing and reporting to the Secretary on the sources and reliability of the statistics proposed by the heads of the operating administrations of the Department to measure outputs

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