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§6306 Transportation statistical collection, analysis, and dissemination

Title 49 › Subtitle SUBTITLE III— - GENERAL AND INTERMODAL PROGRAMS › Chapter CHAPTER 63— - BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS › § 6306

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Coordinate transportation data collection, analysis, and sharing by using other federal, state, local, and private agencies’ staff, equipment, records, information, and facilities — but only if those agencies agree, and with or without payment. The Director can make agreements for data work, work with foreign governments and local agencies, ask federal agencies for needed information, push for data sharing among transportation agencies, and enter data-sharing deals that follow all laws about disclosure and use.

Full Legal Text

Title 49, §6306

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To ensure that all transportation statistical collection, analysis, and dissemination is carried out in a coordinated manner, the Director may—
(1)use the services, equipment, records, personnel, information, and facilities of other Federal agencies, or State, local, and private agencies and instrumentalities, subject to the conditions that the applicable agency or instrumentality consents to that use and with or without reimbursement for such use;
(2)enter into agreements with the agencies and instrumentalities described in paragraph (1) for purposes of data collection and analysis;
(3)confer and cooperate with foreign governments, international organizations, and State, municipal, and other local agencies;
(4)request such information, data, and reports from any Federal agency as the Director determines necessary to carry out this chapter;
(5)encourage replication, coordination, and sharing of information among transportation agencies regarding information systems, information policy, and data; and
(6)confer and cooperate with Federal statistical agencies as the Director determines necessary to carry out this chapter, including by entering into cooperative data sharing agreements in conformity with all laws and regulations applicable to the disclosure and use of data.

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Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2012, see section 3(a) of Pub. L. 112–141, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.

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Citation

49 U.S.C. § 6306

Title 49Transportation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73