---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 6309"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "6309"
heading: "National transportation atlas database"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/6309"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — General and Intermodal Programs"
  - "Chapter 63 — Bureau of Transportation Statistics"
---

# §6309. National transportation atlas database

- (a) **In General.—** The [Director](/usc/49/6301.md?p=3) shall develop and maintain a national [transportation](/usc/49/13907.md?p=e-2) atlas database that is comprised of geospatial databases that depict—
  - (1) [transportation](/usc/49/13907.md?p=e-2) networks;
  - (2) flows of people, goods, vehicles, and craft over the [transportation](/usc/49/13907.md?p=e-2) networks; and
  - (3) social, economic, and environmental conditions that affect or are affected by the [transportation](/usc/49/13907.md?p=e-2) networks.
- (b) **Intermodal Network Analysis.—** The databases referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall be capable of supporting intermodal network analysis.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–141, div. E, title II, § 52011(a), July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 894.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2012, see section 3(a) of Pub. L. 112–141, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.