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GIS At DOT

Many Operating Administrations and Program Offices, One DOT GIS site

This site is a response to a significant opportunity here at DOT.

Official DOT Public Access Plan v1.1

This plan is issued in response to the February 22, 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies entitled “Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research.”  Through this memorandum, OSTP directed...

Version 2.0 Progress Tracker

Version 2.0 Progress Tracker

Commitment

Updates

Open Government 2012 Flagship Initiative

DOT launched http://safety.data.gov at the first Safety Datapalooza during National Transportation Week in May 2012. See this blog post.

The Safety Data Initiative held the second...

DOT Open Government Plan 2.0

About this Plan

In its first Open Government Plan, the Department of Transportation (DOT) recognized that the Open Government initiative is about more than adopting new tools and emerging technologies—it is about effecting real policy and internal culture change to ensure that our Department...