Department of Transportation in Rhode Island

DOT awards tagged to Rhode Island

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Rhode Island as place-of-performance: 531 records summing to $1,599,086,185.71. A Department of Transportation award coded outside RI is out. An award in Rhode Island from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Rhode Island (RI) excludes Massachusetts and Connecticut. A Boston-coded award is Massachusetts even if the commute crosses the line.

Five hundred thirty-one awards against $1,599,086,185.71 is a mid-thin DOT file for a small state. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 531 as 531 unique lane-miles, bridges, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Transportation in Rhode Island is the both-keys table. Rhode Island federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an RI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Highway, transit, aviation, and maritime offices can share 069. This packet does not isolate RIPTA or an airport AIP award. Correlation is not causation: Rhode Island did not cause $1,599,086,185.71 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × RI only.

Not I-95 folklore or a harbor ranking

$1,599,086,185.71 does not measure lane-miles, bridges, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an RI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 531 awards as a census of lane-miles, bridges, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Rhode Island federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $1,599,086,185.71 and 531, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Massachusetts and Connecticut DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov records $1,599,086,185.71 across 531 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Rhode Island tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, bridges, or unique contractors. Department of Transportation in Rhode Island is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,599,086,185.71.

Is $1,599,086,185.71 a measure of lane-miles, bridges, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $1,599,086,185.71 and 531 awards for agency 069 inside RI coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this DOT file have 531 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × RI. Combined with $1,599,086,185.71, the average is about $3.01 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 531 is not unique lane-miles, bridges, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live DOT–Rhode Island table?

Department of Transportation in Rhode Island is the overlay. Rhode Island federal spending and Department of Transportation are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,599,086,185.71. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is RI.