Geodataset Name:       AMTRAK_2009
Geodataset Type:       SHAPEFILE
Geodataset Feature:    Point
Feature Count:         36

DATA SOURCE(S):                    Federal Railroad Administration
SCALE OF ORIGINAL SOURCE MAPS:     Unknown
GEODATASET EXTENT:                 State of Florida

PUBLICATION DATE:                  200901
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            2009
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: AMTRAK_2009.DBF

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES CODES AND VALUES:

Item	Item Description
OBJECTID	Internal feature number.
Shape	Feature geometry.
STNCODE	Unique Station Code
STNNAME	City and State of the station
ADDRESS1	Street address of the station
ADDRESS2	Street address of the station, if app.
CITY	Name of city where station is located
STATE	State railroad abbreviation which follows the Postal abbreviation
ZIP	Postal ZIP Code for station
STNTYPE	Type of Station BUS = Station is a Bus location RAIL = Station is a rail location OTHER = Station serves other modes
STFIPS	State FIPS
VERSION	The VERSION is a 2-digit number that will be incremented for all records in the database whenever a new release is distributed.
DESCRIPT	The City which the Amtrak facility is located
FGDLAQDATE	GeoPlan Acquisition Date
AUTOID	Unique ID added by GeoPlan

USER NOTES:

All point records are represented by a single coordinate pair and a unique feature identifier; the Amtrak Station Code (stored in the STNCODE field). Attribute data can be matched to specific point records using this identifier.

The database includes all Amtrak railroad and thruway bus stations listed in the Amtrak timetables mentioned above.

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

The data set provides location and attribute information for use in national and regional cartographic and network analysis applications.

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

None. Acknowledgment of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) should be cited in products derived from these data.

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REFERENCES:

Bureau Transportation Statistics: http://www.bts.gov/

DATA LINEAGE SUMMARY:

FRA's Amtrak Database was copied and the attributes for each station was compared with the Amtrak website. If there were any dissimilarities, the attribute table was changed. If an address of a station changed, the location of the station was observed to determine if the point had to be moved. If a station location had to be moved, it was done manually. Newly added stations were first but into a separate shapefile (a shapefile for each geographic region) and were added manually by cross-referencing their location with road atlases. Then the shapefiles were added to the database. Process Date: 200903 -The Geoplan Center received the dataset 8/12/2009. -Records were selected where "FIPS" = '12' to select only features in Florida. -Exported selection as a new layer -Reprojected data from GCS_WGS_1984 to Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library) -Upper cased appropriate fields -Added DESCRIPT field based on CITY -Added FGDLAQDATE field and calculated to 8/12/2008 -Renamed dataset from amtk_stations to amtrak_2009 Process Date: 20090819 Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20090911

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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Federal Railroad Administration
FRA
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC
20590
202.493.6415


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