FLORIDA GEOGRAPHIC DATA LIBRARY DOCUMENTATION

TITLE: HIGHWAY-RAIL GRADE CROSSINGS IN FLORIDA - 2019 

Geodataset Name:       RAIL_XING_2019
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         5216
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
This dataset contains the Florida subset FRA Grade Crossings that originates from the National Highway-Rail Crossing, Inventory Program. The program is to provide information to Federal, State, and local governments, as well as the railroad industry for the improvements of safety at highway-rail crossing. This is an update to the layer rail_xing_2018.shp 
DATA SOURCE(S):                    U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Federal Railroad Administration
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  20190523
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            20190415
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES: 

Datafile Name: RAIL_XING_2019.DBF
ITEM NAME WIDTH TYPE
OBJECTID
4 OID
Shape
4 Geometry
CROSSING
10 String
EFFDATE
10 String
EDATE
10 String
REASON
5 String
STATECODE
8 Double
COUNTYCODE
8 Double
STCYFIPS
10 String
CITYCD
5 String
RAILROAD
5 String
RRDIV
20 String
RRSUBDIV
25 String
HIGHWAY
35 String
STREET
45 String
TTSTN
10 String
MILEPOST
10 String
TYPEXING
2 String
POSXING
2 String
PRVCAT
2 String
PRVIND
2 String
INIT
2 String
LLSOURCE
2 String
WHISTBAN
2 String
RRCONT
15 String
POLCONT
15 String
INV_LINK
125 String
ACC_LINK
125 String
CONFLATEDX
8 Double
CONFLATEDY
8 Double
LATITUDE
8 Double
LONGITUD
8 Double
LAT_DD
8 Double
LONG_DD
8 Double
GOOGLEMAP
50 String
MGRS
15 String
DESCRIPT
50 String
FGDLAQDATE
36 Date
AUTOID
4 Integer

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item

Item Description





OBJECTID

Internal feature number.
















Shape

Feature geometry.
















CROSSING

Unique Crossing ID
















EFFDATE

Effective Date
















EDATE

End Date
















REASON

Reason for Update




1 = Changes in Existing Crossing Data

2 = New Crossing

3 = Closed Crossing or Abandoned













STATECODE

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State Code
















COUNTYCODE

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) County Code
















STCYFIPS

Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State & County Code
















CITYCD

City Code
















RAILROAD

Railroad Operating Company
















RRDIV

Railroad Division Name
















RRSUBDIV

Railroad Subdivision
















HIGHWAY

Highway Type and Number
















STREET

Street or Road Name
















TTSTN

Nearest RR Timetable Station
















MILEPOST

RR Milepost
















TYPEXING

Type of Crossing




1 = Pedestrian

2 = Private

3 = Public













POSXING

Position of Crossing




1 = At Grade Under

2 = Railroad Under

3 = Railroad Over













PRVCAT

Private Crossing Category




1 = Farm

2 = Residential

3 = Recreational

4 = Industrial

5 = Commercial













PRVIND

Signs/Signals




1 = Signs

2 = Signals

3 = No signs or signals

4 = Both signs and signals













INIT

Initiating Agency




1 = Railroad

2 = State

3 = DOT

4 = Original FRA internal use













LLSOURCE

Latitude and longitude source




1 = Actual

2 = Estimated

3 = Federal Actual

4 = Federal Derived [For FRA internal use]













WHISTBAN

Whistle Ban (Quiet Zone)




0 = No

1 = 24 hour

2 = Partial

3 = Unknown













RRCONT

Railroad Contact: Contains the telephone number of the railroad contact associated with the crossing.
















POLCONT

Emergency Contact: This field contains the telephone number of the emergency contact associated with the crossing. Normally, this will be the ENS telephone number posted at the crossing or along the railroad branch line.
















INV_LINK

Hyperlink to the U.S. DOT Crossing Inventory Information for that specific crossing
















ACC_LINK

If applicable, hyperlink to the U.S. DOT Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident/Incident Report
















CONFLATEDX

Undefined by Source
















CONFLATEDY

Undefined by Source
















LATITUDE

Grade crossing latitudinal coordinate.
















LONGITUD

Grade crossing longitudinal coordinate.
















LAT_DD

Latitude in decimal degrees.
















LONG_DD

Longitude in decimal degrees.
















GOOGLEMAP

Webpage hyperlink to location in Google Maps.
















MGRS

Military Grid Reference System (MGRS) Coordinate of the Facility. The MGRS is the geocoordinate standard used by NATO militaries for locating points on the earth. The MGRS provides a means to represent any location on the surface of the Earth using an alphanumeric string. Hierarchical references are based on the Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate system. The MGRS is used for the entire earth
















DESCRIPT

GeoPlan added field based on STREET
















FGDLAQDATE

GeoPlan added field based on the date acquired from source
















AUTOID

Unique ID added by GeoPlan




























USER NOTES:








This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity
of the original data layer's topology













This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our
knowledge.













GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the attribute information within
the original data.













Highway-railroad grade crossings are intersections where a highway crosses a 
railroad at-grade.  Grade crossings may be public or private. Public grade 
crossings are roadways that are under the jurisdiction of, and maintained by, a 
public authority. Private grade crossings are on roadways privately owned, such 
as on a farm or industrial area, and is intended for use by the owner or by the 
owner's licensees and invitees.















Rail Crossings is a spatial file maintained by the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) for use by States and Railroads.















This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan















This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy
has not been verified by GeoPlan















No special restrictions or limitations on using the item s content have
been provided.














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REFERENCES: 














DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY: 








The GeoPlan Center took the following steps during the QA/QC process:
- Downloaded the dataset from BTS on 5/31/2019 using this link:
  https://osav-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/
  (original dataset in shapefile format and in the WGS 1984 geographic
  coordinate system).
- Dataset projected into the FGDL Albers HPGN projection using
  WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 + NAD_1983_To_HARN_Florida.

- Only features in Florida were desired, so a Select By Attribute was
  run and features with the STATECODE field equal to 12 were
  selected. These features were exported to a new layer.

- REMOVED 38 RECORDS WITH INCORRECT/INACCURATE SPATIAL DATA, 
  POINTS IN OCEAN OR OUTSIDE OF STATE BOUNDARY

- EMPTY FIELDS REMOVED:
  PRVSIGN, TYPE
- DESCRIPT field added based on the STREET field. Any records with
  no data in the STREET field had their DESCRIPT field calculated as
  'NO DESCRIPT AVAILABLE'.
- ADDED MGRS, LAT_DD, LONG_DD, AND GOOGLEMAP FIELDS
- FGDLAQDATE field added based on the date the dataset was downloaded
  from source.
- The longest record for each field was found and field character lengths
  were shortened to the appropriate shortest length possible.
- Uppercased fields and appropriate records in the dataset.
- Layer name changed from Railroad_Crossings.shp to rail_xing_2019.shp.
Process Date: 20190612


Dataset copied.
Process Date: 20190728









MAP PROJECTION PARAMETERS: 



Projection                          ALBERS
Datum                               HPGN
Units                               METERS
Spheroid                            GRS1980
1st Standard Parallel               24  0  0.000
2nd Standard Parallel               31 30  0.000
Central Meridian                   -84 00  0.000
Latitude of Projection's Origin     24  0  0.000
False Easting (meters)              400000.00000
False Northing (meters)             0.00000




DATA SOURCE CONTACT (S):








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Abbr. Name:
Address:


Phone:

Web site:
E-mail:
Contact Person:
         Phone:
        E-mail:




Federal Railroad Administration, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
BTS/FRA
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC
20590
800-853-1351


https://data-usdot.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/railroad-crossings
answers@bts.gov










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