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... 1Making well-informed, responsible decisions iscritical to shaping the nation's transporta-tion infrastructure. Geospatial data are a foundation for relevant and critical information for planning, engineering, asset management, and operations associated with every transportation mode at all levels of government and administration.
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... from improving the efficiency of the multimodal transportation system as a whole, coordination of geospatial technology initiatives within USDOT is essential. That is a role that the Bureau of Transportation Statistics has begun to play.

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