GIS–T 2003

9 – 11 Spurred Uses of the FRA

Rail Network GIS

Carl Fischer

Commodity Analysis

- Hazardous Materials- From Waybill Sample Data

- Primarily Chemicals and Fuels

- Spent Nuclear Fuel- Nevada Storage Site

- Department of Energy Data

Waybill Sample Data Base(Sampling of Rail Freight Movements in the U.S)

- Origin

- Termination

- Routing

- Tonnage Moved

- Commodity

FRA Rail Network Data Base

- 15,000 Links

- Ownership

- Operating Rights

- Segment Length

- Historical Density

Flow Waybill Over Network

- Calculate Most Likely Routing

- Railroad / Origin / Destination

- Load Each Movement

- Accumulate Tonnage on Each Link