Geodataset Name:       AMTRAK_2010
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:                  2010
TIME PERIOD OF CONTENT:            2010
DOWNLOAD LINK:                     http://www.fgdl.org/metadataexplorer/explorer.jsp

FEATURE ATTRIBUTE TABLES:

Datafile Name: AMTRAK_2010.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 applicable.
CITY	Name of the city the station is located in.
STATE	State abbreviation which follows the postal abbreviation.
ZIP	Postal ZIP code for location of station.
STNTYPE	Type of station. BUS = Station is a thruway bus stop RAIL = Station is a rail station OTHER = Station serves other modes
STFIPS	Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) State Code.
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	Based on CITY.
FGDLAQDATE	The date GeoPlan acquired the data from the source.
AUTOID	Unique ID added by GeoPlan

USER NOTES:

All points 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 contains all the Amtrak thruway bus and rail stations from the Amtrak website and Timetables in the US and Canada as of March 2009. As new stations are formed or if they move, this database should be updated accordingly.

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

The data set provides an updated version of the location and attribute information for all Amtrak stations in the United States and Canada. This data is used for national 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:

Federal Railroad Administration: http://www.fra.dot.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: 201003 In July 2010 Geoplan obtained the data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in CDROM format. During the QA/QC process, GeoPlan performed the following tasks. -Extracted features where "STATEFIPS" = '12' to select features in Florida -Reprojected Florida selection set from GCS_WGS_1984 to Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library) -Uppercased all fields -Added DESCRIPT field based on CITY -Added FGDLAQDATE field based on the date GeoPlan received the data -Renamed the dataset from amtrk_sta to amtrak_2010 Process Date: 20100810 Data imported to ArcSDE and exported as a shapefile. Process Date: 20100831

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

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Federal Railroad Administration
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Washington, DC
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