Department of Transportation federal obligations in Alabama

DOT awards tagged to Alabama

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 3,175 records summing to $5,905,823,501.27. A Department of Transportation award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Mobile-adjacent Mississippi award is MS, not this cell.

Three thousand one hundred seventy-five awards is a mid-count DOT file: more rows than a thin lab-style cell, fewer than a USDA assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 3,175 as 3,175 unique lane-miles, bridge ratings, or traffic fatalities. The overlay Department of Transportation in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

I-65 and I-20 folklore is not a packet split. $5,905,823,501.27 stays statewide on 069 × AL. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not “cause” $5,905,823,501.27 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × AL only.

Not a bridge census or a traffic ranking

$5,905,823,501.27 does not measure lane-miles, bridge ratings, or traffic fatalities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 3,175 awards as a census of lane-miles, bridge ratings, or traffic fatalities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $5,905,823,501.27 and 3,175, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alabama, not a Gulf or Appalachian rollup

Place of performance AL is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Mobile-adjacent Mississippi award is MS, not this cell. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

I-65 and I-20 folklore is not a packet split. $5,905,823,501.27 stays statewide on 069 × AL. This packet does not split $5,905,823,501.27 by city, county, or named facility. 3,175 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Formula timing versus outlays

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,905,823,501.27 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alabama confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alabama’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 3,175-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $5,905,823,501.27.

Citing DOT in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $5,905,823,501.27 on 3,175 awards coded to Alabama. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as lane-miles, bridge ratings, or traffic fatalities.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Alabama if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alabama federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AL. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the AL filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,905,823,501.27.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Alabama, $5,905,823,501.27, and 3,175. The compact headline $5.91 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.86 million is $5,905,823,501.27 divided by 3,175. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $5,905,823,501.27 across 3,175 awards with awarding agency 069 and an Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of lane-miles, bridge ratings, or traffic fatalities. Department of Transportation in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,905,823,501.27.

Is $5,905,823,501.27 a measure of lane-miles, bridge ratings, or traffic fatalities?

No. The packet publishes $5,905,823,501.27 and 3,175 awards for agency 069 inside AL 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 3,175 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × AL. Combined with $5,905,823,501.27, the average is about $1.86 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 3,175 is not unique lane-miles, bridge ratings, or traffic fatalities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama 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 $5,905,823,501.27. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.