FHWA's Integrated Data Analysis Efforts and Plan

DataPalooza 6/4/2014 : Analyzing Integrated Data Part 1

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1. FHWA’s Integrated Data Analysis Efforts and Plan GTMA Trans Data Expo/ US DOT Data Palooza 2014 Tianjia Tang, PE, Ph.D. Chief, Travel Monitoring and Surveys Division Office of Highway policy Information, Federal Highway Administration Tianjia.Tang@DOT.GOV
2. Contents • Major Data Program Areas • Program Goal • Program Objective • What We Have Done
3. Major Data Program Areas • Infrastructure inventory • Travel • Travel behavior • Freight • Finance – Federal, state and local • Vehicle and driver registration • Motor fuel • Financial management • Modeling • Others
4. Program Goal To enable effective and efficient delivery of the Federal- aid highway program 1) Provide credible data for Federal-aid $ apportionment 2) Provide data and information enabling effective Federal-aid program administration 3) Provide credible data to Congress in support of legislation 4) Provide credible data to the general public
5. Program Objective To provide data and information in a manner of: 1) completeness 2) comprehensiveness 3) easy access 4) clear and easy to understand 5) timeliness 6) supporting multiple options and formats
6. Data Office/Team Focus 1. Data offices/teams are not to focused on analyzing data for relationships, causations, and effects other than data quality. 2. Effects and relationships are to be performed by other program offices, organizations, and businesses for their own unique scenarios and needs.
7. Completeness Completeness - independent utility Completeness means that when we publish a set of data, a set of metadata including collection methods, performing organizations, dates and other relevant information is also published.
8. Comprehensiveness 1: Organizational Approach Data Governance Board 2: Establish new data items Passenger Travel Origin Destination Data Vehicle Miles Traveled Forecasting Data Road Elevation Profile Data Bus passenger travel data 3: Provide geospatial and temporal linkage fields HPMS FAF NPMRDS FMIS TMAS NBI NHTS Others
9. Easy Access Posting data and information on the worldwide web for: 1. searching 2. filtering 3. data exporting 4. Data displaying 5. Data downloading 6. Others
10. Clear and Easy to Understand Publish data in a way that support user intuition and expectation on data format, organization, and sequencing by considering two drastic different audiences in terms of technical expertise and familiarity on the subject: 1: professional and power users 2: all the rest
11. Timeliness 1. For scheduled publication and release, mobilize all resources to maintain the schedule. 2. For all others, release the data at the earliest opportunity possible. 3. Overall, we remind ourselves that decision makings will not wait for data.
12. Supporting Multiple Options and Formats Provide data in formats supporting not only the most common software packages but also open source packages.
13. Visit us at www.fhwa.dot.gov www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation
14. Thanks!