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Title: United States Hazardous Materials Routes, 2008

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 2008

Publishers

  • Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS)

Summary

Hazardous Materials Routes is a line theme representing routs as described in the National Hazardous Material Route Registry (NMHRR). The on-line NMHRR linkage is http://hazmat.fmcsa.dot.gov/nhmrr/index.asp With the exception of 13 features that were not identified with the Tiger/Lines, Hazmat routes were created by extracting the TIGER/Line segments that corresponded to each individual route. Hazmat routes in the NTAD, are organized into 3 database files, hazmat.shp, hmroutes.dbf, and hmstcnty.dbf. Each record in each database represents a unique Tiger/Line segment. These Tiger/Line segments are grouped into routes identified as character strings in the ROUTE_ID field in the hmroutes.dbf table. The route name appearing in the ROUTE_ID is assigned by FMCSA and is unique for each State [this sentence could be deleted - it doesn't add a lot to it]. The hmstcnty.dbf table allows the user to select routes by State and County. A single shapefile, called hazmat.shp, represents geometry for all routes in the United States.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • United States
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-124.216232, -71.051495, 49.000758, 26.111954)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-124.216232, -71.051495, 49.000758, 26.111954)

Provider

Columbia

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS), Volpe NTSC. United States Hazardous Materials Routes, 2008. Research and Innovative Technology Administration's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (RITA/BTS). Line data. https://geodata.library.columbia.edu/catalog/sde-columbia-ntad_2008_us_hazmat

Format

Shapefile

Languages

  • English