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GSA is amending the Federal Management Regulation (FMR) to recommend that agencies annually submit a Federal Transportation Summary for prior fiscal year transportation activities for freight and cargo, including household goods (HHG). Every process improvement effort relies on data to provide a factual basis for making decisions. Data collection improves decision-making by helping to focus on objective information rather than subjective opinions. Agencies that choose to report will submit a Federal Transportation Summary through a Web-based tool named the Federal Interagency Transportation System (FITS). Reported items include agencies' data on transportation management, training, and shipments/expenditures by procurement method, spending, environmental/sustainable factors and shipping profile. This final rule will provide GSA the summary data necessary for analysis, which will assist GSA in developing enhanced Governmentwide transportation policies to make transportation management programs more efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable.  This case is included in GSA's retrospective review of existing regulations under Executive Order 13563. Additional information is located in GSA's retrospective review (2014), available at: www.gsa.gov/improvingregulations.