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§6306 Transportation Statistical Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination

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

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director may coordinate how transportation data are collected, analyzed, and shared. The Director can use the services, equipment, records, staff, information, and facilities of federal, state, local, or private agencies if those groups agree, and with or without reimbursement. The Director can make agreements for data collection and analysis, ask any federal agency for needed information, work with foreign and local governments and international groups, encourage agencies to share and coordinate data and systems, and enter data‑sharing agreements that follow all laws and rules about disclosing and using data.

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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 49, Transportation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102