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United States Fixed-Guideway Transit Facilities, 2008
- Identification Information
- Data Quality Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
- Originator
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- Publication Date
- 2006
- Title
- United States Fixed-Guideway Transit Facilities, 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Collection Title
- National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2008
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington DC
- Publisher
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- Online Linkage
- http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/gis/images/ntad_2008_us_transsta.zip
- Abstract
- United States Fixed-Guideway Transit Facilities, 2008 is a point theme representing stations in fixed-guideway transit systems in the United States. The data set covers systems in cities defined as FTA's universe of cities and includes heavy rail, light rail, monorail, cable car, inclined plane, and automated guideway.
- Purpose
- The data provide users with information about the location and type of fixed-guideway transit and terminal facilities primarily for regional cartographic, spatial and network analysis purposes.
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- publication date
- Time Instant
- 2008
- Bounding Box
- West
- -122.991273
- East
- -70.626380
- North
- 47.974800
- South
- 25.680243
- Theme Keyword
- transportation
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Theme Keyword
- fixed-guideway
- transportation
- transit
- light rail
- heavy rail
- monorail
- inclined plane
- cable car
- automated guideway
- high-occupancy vehicle lanes
- commuter rail, Stations
- Terminals
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Place Keyword
- United States
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Temporal Keyword
- 2008
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- None
- Use Restrictions
- None
- Status
- In work
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Irregular
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- Delivery Point
- 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE
- Delivery Point
- 400 7th Street, SW Room 4117
- City
- Washington
- State
- District of Columbia
- Postal Code
- 20590
- Country
- USA
- Contact Telephone
- 202-366-DATA
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- answers@bts.gov
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.2.5.1450
- Collection
- Originator
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- Publication Date
- 2008
- Title
- National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2008
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Publication Information
- Publication Place
- Washington DC
- Publisher
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- Online Linkage
- http://www.bts.gov/programs/geographic_information_services/
- Data Quality Information
- Attribute Accuracy Report
- Attribute information was obtained from individual transit agencies through telephone conversations, GIS data, transit agency websites, transit agency maps and schedules, and other traveler information systems. Data include a SOURCE field that identifies the original source of the data.
- Quantitative Attribute Accuracy Assessment
- Logical Consistency Report
- This database contains fixed-guideway transit features for agencies identified by RITA/BTS for processing as of 5/1/04.
- Completeness Report
- Data were processed for FTA's universe of cities based on the availability of source data from FTA, RITA/BTS, or local transit agencies. At this time, coverage is incomplete for the New York City area due to the lack of availability of local transit data.
- Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
- Right-of-ways for fixed guideways were developed from GIS data provided by FTA, RITA/BTS and local transit agencies. In most cases, the source data are very accurate and complete. In rare cases where the lines were digitized, DOQQ's for the local area were used as a reference for heads-up digitizing. Station locations were verified using street maps, local DOQQ's and USGS DOQ's which were available via the internet from a variety of publicly available data clearinghouses. Data include a SOURCE field that identifies the original source of the data.
- Quantitative Horizontal Positional Accuracy Assessment
- Lineage
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- Entity point
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 2511
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Geographic
- Latitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Longitude Resolution
- 0.000000
- Geographic Coordinate Units
- Decimal degrees
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D_WGS_1984
- Ellipsoid Name
- WGS_1984
- Semi-major Axis
- 6378137.000000
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 298.257224
- Vertical Coordinate System Definition
- Altitude System Definition
- Altitude Resolution
- 0.000010
- Altitude Encoding Method
- Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- transit_sta
- Entity Type Definition
- Fixed-Guideway Transit Facilities
- Entity Type Definition Source
- RITA/BTS
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- RECID
- Unique feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- RITA/BTS
- STFIPS
- Two digit State FIPS Code (Federal Information Processing Standard- FIPS Pub 6-4National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST))
- Definition Source
- NIST
- STATION
- Name of station (free text)
- Definition Source
- See SOURCE field
- STR_ADD
- Address of station (free text)
- Definition Source
- See SOURCE field
- RTS_SRVD
- Name of the route(s) served by station (Route names delineated by commas e.g. Blue, Red Lines) in alphabetical order (free text)
- Definition Source
- See SOURCE field
- LONGTUDE
- Longitude of Station (180 degrees West to 180 degrees East)
- Definition Source
- ESRI
- LATITUDE
- Latitude of Station (90 degrees South to 90 degrees North)
- Definition Source
- Computationally Generated
- CITY
- Name of City (National Transit DatabaseFederal Transit Administration (FTA))
- Definition Source
- Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
- UZA
- Urbanized Area Name (Official List of Urbanized Area NamesU.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC))
- Definition Source
- National Transit Database
- UACODE
- Urbanized Area 5 digit code (Official List of Urbanized Area NamesU.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC))
- Definition Source
- National Transit Database
- ZIPCODE
- 5 digit U.S. Postal Code of Station (Census 2000 U.S. Postal CodesU.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC))
- Definition Source
- U.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC)
- STATUS
- Current status of the station
- 1
- Planned
- 2
- Out of service
- 3
- Active
- 4
- Under Construction
- 9
- Used to identify nodes that are not Stations such as rail junctions and State Borders
- Definition Source
- FTA
- SOURCE
- Identifies source of original data
- BTS
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- DOT
- State Department of Transportation
- MPO
- Metropolitan Planning Organization
- FTA
- Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
- RTA
- Responsible Transit Agency
- DOQ
- Digital Ortho Quarter Quads
- FRA
- Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
- TGR
- TIGER 2000 U.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC)
- ADD
- Street Address
- BDR
- State Border Node
- Definition Source
- UTCTR
- VERSION
- Version of the database (00 to 99)
- Definition Source
- RITA/BTS
- Distribution Information
- Format Name
- geopackage
- Distributor
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20090601
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- Research Data Services (RDS), Columbia University Libraries
- Contact Person
- GIS/Metadata Librarian
- Contact Address
- Address
- 420 W. 118th St., 215 IAB, MC 3301
- City
- New York
- State or Province
- NY
- Postal Code
- 10027
- Country
- USA
- Contact Voice Telephone
- (212)854-6012
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- data@library.columbia.edu
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
