Department of Transportation in District of Columbia

Transportation awards tagged to DC

Two keys define the cell. Awarding agency is Department of Transportation, CGAC 069. Geography is the District of Columbia. The product is $56,469,157,142.19 and 4,397 awards. A Federal Highway award coded to Maryland is out. A Defense award coded to DC is out.

Four thousand three hundred ninety-seven records against $56,469,157,142.19 imply about $12.8 million per award. Headquarters contracts, multi-state vehicles administered from a DC address, and local-looking actions can share that mean. This packet does not say how many of the 4,397 rows funded District pavement.

Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending is the all-agency DC hub. All spending ties lists other joins. Headquarters coding is the standing caveat on this cell. $56,469,157,142.19 can include national vehicles administered from a DC address. The 4,397-award count does not mean 4,397 District street projects. Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the overlay for the coded pair, not a pavement inventory.

Headquarters geography is not a road map

Place-of-performance can follow the awarding office. A national program administered from a DC address may carry the DC tag while work occurs in fifty states. $56,469,157,142.19 is therefore not “how much DOT spent on District infrastructure.” It is how much DOT-awarded obligation was coded to DC.

WMATA, the Metro, and District-owned streets are not named in the packet. Do not assign the 4,397 awards to those systems. Correlation of a capital-city tag with a Transportation total is not causation, and it is not a pothole inventory. The District is not a state. This join still uses the same USAspending geography field other state-agency pages use. The overlay path keeps DC as the geography key. Formula grants that later flow to states can still carry a DC tag if the recipient or office sits in the District. That is a coding outcome, not a finding that the District captured other states’ highway money. District of Columbia federal spending still includes every awarding agency, not only 069.

Questions

How much has DOT obligated in the District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov lists $56,469,157,142.19 in Department of Transportation obligations across 4,397 DC-coded awards. Agency 069 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a map of District streets. USAspending.gov is the originating system. Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. $56,469,157,142.19 remains an obligation sum, not an outlay, across 4,397 awards.

Does this mean $56 billion was spent on D.C. roads and transit?

No. Place-of-performance can follow a headquarters address. $56,469,157,142.19 is DOT-awarded obligation coded to DC on 4,397 records, not a local infrastructure invoice. This packet publishes only the Department of Transportation (agency 069) join inside District of Columbia coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $56,469,157,142.19 and 4,397 together.

Is the District treated like a state in this file?

The geography key is DC, the same field other joins use for states. The 4,397 awards and $56,469,157,142.19 are still an agency × geography intersection from USAspending.gov. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert $56,469,157,142.19 into cash already paid. Later ingests can revise 4,397 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents. All spending ties lists other pairs. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Transportation are parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $56,469,157,142.19. Obligations are not outlays.