---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 6303"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "6303"
heading: "Intermodal transportation database"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/6303"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — General and Intermodal Programs"
  - "Chapter 63 — Bureau of Transportation Statistics"
---

# §6303. Intermodal transportation database

- (a) **In General.—** In consultation with the Under [Secretary](/usc/49/5102.md?p=11) Transportation for Policy, the Assistant [Secretaries](/usc/49/5102.md?p=11) of the [Department](/usc/49/6301.md?p=2), and the heads of the operating administrations of the [Department](/usc/49/6301.md?p=2), the [Director](/usc/49/6301.md?p=3) shall establish and maintain a transportation database for all modes of transportation.
- (b) **Use.—** The database established under this section shall be suitable for analyses carried out by the Federal Government, the [States](/usc/49/5102.md?p=12), and metropolitan planning organizations.
- (c) **Contents.—** The database established under this section shall include—
  - (1) information on the volumes and patterns of movement of goods, including local, interregional, and international movement, by all modes of transportation, intermodal combinations, and relevant classification;
  - (2) information on the volumes and patterns of movement of people, including local, interregional, and international movements, by all modes of transportation (including bicycle and pedestrian modes), intermodal combinations, and relevant classification;
  - (3) information on the location and connectivity of transportation facilities and services; and
  - (4) a national accounting of expenditures and capital stocks on each mode of transportation and intermodal combination.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–141, div. E, title II, § 52011(a), July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 890.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.