Title 49 — TransportationRelease 119-73
§6309 National transportation atlas database
Title 49 › Subtitle SUBTITLE III— - GENERAL AND INTERMODAL PROGRAMS › Chapter CHAPTER 63— - BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS › § 6309
Summary
The Director must build and keep a national atlas that maps transportation networks, flows of people, goods, vehicles, and craft, and social, economic, and environmental data, supporting analysis across modes.
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Title 49, §6309
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(a)The Director shall develop and maintain a national transportation atlas database that is comprised of geospatial databases that depict—
(1)transportation networks;
(2)flows of people, goods, vehicles, and craft over the transportation networks; and
(3)social, economic, and environmental conditions that affect or are affected by the transportation networks.
(b)The databases referred to in subsection (a) shall be capable of supporting intermodal network analysis.
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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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49 U.S.C. § 6309
Title 49 — Transportation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73