Railroad Grade Crossings

ISO-19139 Metadata

Metadata Information

Metadata character set: utf8
Last update: 2024-10-16
Metadata contact:
Role: pointOfContact
Individual's name: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) GIS Office
Organization's name: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Contact's position: GIS Program Manager
Contact information:
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country: US
e-mail address: FRAGIS@dot.gov
Scope of the data described by the metadata: dataset
Scope name: dataset
Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007

Data Identification Information

Resource citation:
Title: Railroad Grade Crossings
Collection title: National Transportation Atlas Database
Date:
Reference date - creation: 2008-07-01
Cited responsible party:
Role: originator
Organization's name: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Themes or categories of the resource: transportation
Descriptive keywords:
Place keywords:
Keywords: USA, National
Descriptive keywords:
Theme keywords:
Keywords: transportation
Keyword thesaurus:
Title: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Date:
Descriptive keywords:
Theme keywords:
Keywords: NTAD, National Transportation Atlas Database, Transportation, Atlas, Database, vector, point, Rail, Railroad, Grade, Crossings, Railroad Grade Crossings
Abstract: The Railroad Grade Crossings dataset was updated on July 07, 2024 and was created on October 13, 2024 by the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), and is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)/Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The Railroad Grade Crossings is a spatial file that originates from the National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory Program. The program is to provide information to the public, Federal, State, and Local governments, as well as the railroad industry for information and the improvements of safety at highway-rail crossings. Some railroad grade crossings were located outside the US or their respective states, and relocated to latitude longitude 0,0.
Purpose: Railroad grade crossings are intersections where a roadway crosses a railroad at-grade. This dataset can be used within the public, the Federal Government, rail industry, state DOTs, and academia for mapping and analysis.
Dataset language:
Dataset character set: utf8
Status: onGoing
Resource maintenance:
Update frequency: irregular
User-defined maintenance frequency: Monthly for WMS and annually for NTAD
Resource constraints:
General constraints:
Limitations of use: nan
Resource constraints:
General constraints:
Limitations of use: This NTAD dataset is a work of the United States government as defined in 17 U.S.C. § 101 and as such are not protected by any U.S. copyrights. This work is available for unrestricted public use.
Aggregated resource information:
Aggregate dataset name:
Title: National Transportation Atlas Database
Date:
Reference date - publication: 2024-10-25
Cited responsible party:
Role: originator
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Association type: largerWorkCitation
Processing environment: Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.8.1.14362
Resource extent:
Geographic element:
Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -171.5
East longitude: -67
North latitude: 71.5
South latitude: 18.5
Temporal element:
Temporal extent:
2024-07-07
Credits: Department of Transportation (DOT)
Resource point of contact:
Role: pointOfContact
Individual's name: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) GIS Office
Organization's name: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
Contact's position: GIS Program Manager
Contact information:
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country: US
e-mail address: FRAGIS@dot.gov

Spatial Representation

Vector Data

Geometric objects:
Object type: point
Object count: 242464

Data Quality

Scope of quality information:
Level of the data:dataset
Resource lineage:
Process step:
Description: The dataset was generated from the FRA grade crossing inventory which populates FRA GIS grade crossing layer monthly then distributed to NTAD annually and WMS monthly.
Data quality report:
Completeness omission:
Measure produced by the test: Data set is considered complete for the information presented, as described in the abstract. Users are advised to read the rest of the metadata record carefully for additional details.
Data quality result:

Distribution Information

Distributor:
Distributor contact:
Role: distributor
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Contact's position: NTAD Program Manager
Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: none
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country: US
e-mail address: ntad@dot.gov
Distributor format:
Format name: Open Data Catalog
Format version: 1.0
Format specification: download
File decompression technique: ZIP
Distribution order process:
Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.
Distributor transfer options:
Online distribution information:
Online location: https://doi.org/10.21949/1522256
Distributor:
Distributor contact:
Role: distributor
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Contact's position: NTAD Program Manager
Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: none
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country: US
e-mail address: ntad@dot.gov
Distributor format:
Format name: Esri Feature Service
Format version: 11.1
Format specification: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/services-reference/online/hosted-feature-service.htm
Distribution order process:
Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.
Distributor transfer options:
Online distribution information:
Online location: https://doi.org/10.21949/1522258
Distributor:
Distributor contact:
Role: distributor
Organization's name: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Contact's position: NTAD Program Manager
Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: none
Address:
Delivery point: 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
City: Washington
Administrative area: DC
Postal code: 20590
Country: US
e-mail address: ntad@dot.gov
Distributor format:
Format name: AZURE Cloud ArcGIS Server Vector Tile Service
Format version: 1.0
Format specification: https://www.ogc.org/standards/wmts
Distribution order process:
Terms and fees: None. No fees are applicable for obtaining the dataset.
Distributor transfer options:
Online distribution information:
Online location: https://doi.org/10.21949/1522259