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.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 1992. Data for Decisions: Requirements for National Transportation Policy Making -- Special Report 234. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11407.
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