---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5733"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5733"
heading: "Expeditious travel"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5733"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter II — Travel and Transportation Expenses; New Appointees, Student Trainees, and Transferred Employees"
---

# §5733. Expeditious travel


The travel of an [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) shall be by the most expeditious means of transportation practicable and shall be commensurate with the nature and purpose of the duties of the [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) requiring such travel.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–206, title II, § 222(c)(1), Dec. 16, 1967, 81 Stat. 641.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective thirty days after Dec. 16, 1967, see section 220(a)(4) of Pub. L. 90–206, set out as an Effective Date of 1967 Amendment note under section 5542 of this title.