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Secure Data Commons - Data Provider User Guide
Secure Data Commons - Data Analyst User Guide
Secure Data Commons - Support
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User Guide for Data Analysts (PDF 4.8 MB)Data Provider Training Materials
User Guide for Data Providers (PDF 709 KB)For more videos and more information about the SDC please reach out to the SDC Support Desk.
Last updated with release 2.5 (February 6, 2020)
Starting a Project in the SDC - for Project Owners
Managing and sharing transportation research data, securely, is now easier than ever. The USDOT Secure Data Commons (SDC) is an access-controlled, cloud-based data environment that enables users to conduct analyses and develop new tools around emerging sources of transportation data. The SDC stores...Secure Data Commons - Home
A Collaborative Transportation Research and Analytics Platform
The USDOT Secure Data Commons (SDC) can help speed up transportation data collection and analysis. See what the SDC can do for your project.
How Can the SDC Fulfill Your Needs?
Does the SDC meet your project needs?
Understand how the SDC can be used to accelerate your transportation research and analysis activities. Find out what the platform can do and how it can be utilized for your needs. Bring together transportation experts and data scientists from academia, industry, and different federal agencies to share common data sources and leverage common tools.
How can you get your data into the SDC?
Find out how to get your data and analysis into the SDC with minimal effort. Support your program’s mission by combining data from a diverse set of sources. Check out the list of current projects and datasets that are using the SDC.
What are the SDC capabilities?
Understand the capabilities offered by the SDC for your analysis. Use the data and tools available in the SDC to create meaningful insights that can be used to inform data-driven research and policy. Learn more and find out how your project team can access the SDC.
Support when you need it
Projects considering using the SDC have the ability to request and pay for customized support for their research programs above and beyond baseline technical support services. The customized support services provides customers with the necessary skills and tools to rapidly deliver analytical results in the SDC, implement best practices on their use of the SDC, and consistently achieve their analytical and mission goals using the SDC. The SDC offers services tailored to data providers' and researchers' goals and collaboration needs with the proper security controls.
Last updated September 2022