Data analysis
The State of the System: Tracking transportation dataThe federal transportation program spends more than $60 billion per year. Yet it’s incredibly difficult to determine what this money is accomplishing because federal transportation data can be impenetrable, confusing, and scattered across a host of government websites and reports.
What you will find here:
With Transportation for America’s interactive State of the System (SOS) data hub, we have assembled and synthesized foundational transportation data that can help you understand how your tax dollars are being spent, and what—if anything—has been accomplished with the $1.5 trillion spent on transportation since 1991, so you can better hold Congress, state DOTs and other transportation agencies accountable.
Numbers tell the story
Here are just a few samples of what you can pull out of the State of the System data hub. Click the button under any of them to dive into data on that topic.
The total number of U.S. bridges in poor condition.
The amount of general tax money (non-gas taxes) devoted to highways over the life of the 2021 infrastructure law.
set targets for more people outside of vehicles to be injured/killed in 2024 compared to 2022.