Department of Transportation federal obligations in Connecticut

DOT awards tagged to Connecticut

Department of Transportation as awarding agency, Connecticut as place-of-performance: 2,059 records summing to $5,848,479,362.44. A Department of Transportation award coded outside CT is out. An award in Connecticut from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Connecticut (CT) excludes New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. A New York City-coded award is NY even if the commute crosses the state line.

Two thousand fifty-nine awards is a mid-thin DOT file. A smaller state tag is not evidence of a smaller national program. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 2,059 as 2,059 unique rail riders, highway congestion hours, or unique contractors. The overlay Department of Transportation in Connecticut is the both-keys table. Connecticut federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Transportation is the agency book without a CT filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Hartford and New Haven are unpublished splits. Place of performance is CT, not a commuting zone. Correlation is not causation: Connecticut did not “cause” $5,848,479,362.44 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 069 × CT only.

Not Metro-North ridership or I-95 congestion

$5,848,479,362.44 does not measure rail riders, highway congestion hours, or unique contractors. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 069 and a CT place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 2,059 awards as a census of rail riders, highway congestion hours, or unique contractors. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Connecticut federal spending or Department of Transportation matched $5,848,479,362.44 and 2,059, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island DOT joins are other pairs, not addends.

Connecticut, not a New York metro rollup

Place of performance CT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Connecticut (CT) excludes New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. A New York City-coded award is NY even if the commute crosses the state line. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Hartford and New Haven are unpublished splits. Place of performance is CT, not a commuting zone. This packet does not split $5,848,479,362.44 by city, county, or named facility. 2,059 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations versus construction draws

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,848,479,362.44 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Connecticut confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Connecticut’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 2,059-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 $5,848,479,362.44.

Citing DOT in Connecticut

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Transportation (agency 069) obligated $5,848,479,362.44 on 2,059 awards coded to Connecticut. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as rail riders, highway congestion hours, or unique contractors.

Prefer Department of Transportation in Connecticut if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Connecticut federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CT. Department of Transportation is the 069 parent without the CT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,848,479,362.44.

A usable footnote names Department of Transportation, Connecticut, $5,848,479,362.44, and 2,059. The compact headline $5.85 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.84 million is $5,848,479,362.44 divided by 2,059. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Transportation obligated in Connecticut?

USAspending.gov records $5,848,479,362.44 across 2,059 awards with awarding agency 069 and a Connecticut tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of rail riders, highway congestion hours, or unique contractors. Department of Transportation in Connecticut is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,848,479,362.44.

Is $5,848,479,362.44 a measure of rail riders, highway congestion hours, or unique contractors?

No. The packet publishes $5,848,479,362.44 and 2,059 awards for agency 069 inside CT 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 2,059 awards?

That is the award-record count for 069 × CT. Combined with $5,848,479,362.44, the average is about $2.84 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 2,059 is not unique rail riders, highway congestion hours, or unique contractors. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Transportation in Connecticut is the overlay. Connecticut 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 $5,848,479,362.44. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.