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Policy Document

Lists: Bulleted vs. Numbered

The Department of Transportation (DOT) and Operating Administrations (OA's) use bulleted lists to present items of equal status or value, and numbered lists if a particular order to the items is...

Policy Document

Mandatory Content

The Department of Transportation (DOT) and Operating Administration websites include required links to the following information:

Policy Document

Mobile Device/Agnostic

All content created on the Department of Transportation (DOT) and Operating Administration (OA) websites are mobile responsive/device agnostic.  However, we cannot guarantee that content...

Policy Document

Open Data, Open Government, Open Content

The Department of Transportation and our Operating Administrations are committed to openness and engagement. You can learn more about our Open Government Plan here.

Policy Document

Orphan Pages

An orphan page is a page of a website which does not point to any link from another site. The only way to access an orphan web page is to know its...

Policy Document

Performance Measurement and Reporting

The Department of Transportation (DOT) and our Operating Administrations use Google Analytics to capture statistics on our websites. These statistics help website managers measure and report on...

Policy Document

Plain Language Writing for the Web

At the Department of Transportation, we have a long-standing commitment to using plain language, and we see plain writing as an integral part of achieving the goals of our Open Government Plan....

Policy Document

Search Function

The Department of Transportation (DOT) and Operating Administration (OA) websites contain a search function, DigitalGov Search, that allows users to...