Department of Transportation - Access to Intercity Air, Bus, and Rail Transportation in Rural Areas

Name: Department of Transportation - Access to Intercity Air, Bus, and Rail Transportation in Rural Areas
Published: 2025-03-12
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Transportation

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Project Citation:

United States Department of Transportation. Department of Transportation - Access to Intercity Air, Bus, and Rail Transportation in Rural Areas. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-03-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E222621V2

Project Description

Project Title: Department of Transportation - Access to Intercity Air, Bus, and Rail Transportation in Rural Areas

Summary: Total and percent of rural population with access to scheduled intercity bus, rail, and air transportation. Rural areas are Census block groups with their centroid (center) outside of all Census urban areas. Summarized to county level. Facilities used available at: https://data.transportation.gov/Research-and-Statistics/Intercity-Air-Bus-and-Rail-Transportation-Faciliti/xnub-2sc4.

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Microdata: Yes

Level of Analysis: Local - county

Variables Present: No

File Layout: .csv

Codebook: No

Methods: Partial -
link: https://data.bts.gov/stories/s/Rural-Accessibility-Methodology/dbb4-pr2c

Weights (with appropriate documentation): n/a

Publications: No

Aggregate Data: No

Original Distribution URL: https://data.bts.gov/Research-and-Statistics/Access-to-Intercity-Air-Bus-and-Rail-Transportatio/m2bh-93w3/about_data

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: Transportation; air transportation; public transportation

Geographic Coverage: United States - nationwide

Time Period(s): 2006 – 2021

Data Type(s): geographic information system (GIS) data

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation: Household

Geographic Unit: Census tract

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V2 [2026-03-22]

V1 [2025-03-12]

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