Title: Waterways Network: United States and Territories, 2011
- Line data
- 2014
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Stanford)
- Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research
- Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center (U.S.)
- United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Dates
- Issued: 2014
- Coverage: 2011
Publishers
- United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Summary
The National Waterway Network is comprised of a link database and a node database. Links are line strings, which consist of beginning and end points (nodes) with intermediate vertices (shape points). This polyline shapefile depicts links that represent either actual shipping lanes (i.e., channels, Intracoastal Waterways, sealanes, rivers) or serve as representative paths in open water (where no defined shipping paths exist). Nodes may represent physical entities such as river confluence's, ports/facilities, and intermodal terminals, USACE nodes, or may be inserted for analytical purposes (i.e., to facilitate routing). The National Waterway Network is a comprehensive network database of the nation's navigable waterways. This polyline shapefile covers the 48 contiguous states plus the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and water links between. The nominal scale of the dataset varies with the source material. The majority of the information is at 1:100,000 with larger scales used in harbor/bay/port areas and smaller scales used in open waters. This layer is part of the 2014 National Transportation Atlas Database. The National Transportation Atlas Databases 2014 (NTAD2014) is a set of nationwide geographic datasets of transportation facilities, transportation networks, associated infrastructure and other political and administrative entities. These datasets include spatial information for transportation modal networks and intermodal terminals, as well as the re¬lated attribute information for these features. This data supports research, analysis, and decision-making across all transportation modes. It is most useful at the national level, but has major applications at regional, state and local scales throughout the transportation community. The data used to compile NTAD2014 was provided by our partners within the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and by other agencies throughout the United States Federal Government. These contributors are the actual data stewards and are ultimately responsible for the maintenance and accuracy of their data. This data is used for national and network analysis applications. The National Waterway Network is a geographic database of navigable waterways in and around the United States, for analytical studies of waterway performance, for compiling commodity flow statistics and for mapping purposes. United States. Department of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration. (2014). Waterways Network: United States and Territories, 2011. National Transportation Atlas Database 2014. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/qh980zg4909. Links in the waterway network represent actual shipping lanes or serve as representative paths in open water where no defined shipping lanes exist. Nodes may represent physical entities such as river confluences, ports/facilities, and intermodal terminals, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE nodes), or may be inserted for analytical purposes. Approximately 180 USACE ports are geo-coded in the node database.
Subjects
- Transportation
- Inland Waters
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States Virgin Islands
- Puerto Rico
- American Samoa
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Guam
- Intracoastal waterways
- Channels
- Rivers
- Shipping
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-179.803407, 179.13519, 72.19972, -55.905212)
- Geometry: BBOX (-179.803407, 179.13519, 72.19972, -55.905212)
Provider
Stanford
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Vanderbilt Engineering Center for Transportation Operations and Research, Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center (U.S.), United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Waterways Network: United States and Territories, 2011. United States. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Line data. https://purl.stanford.edu/qh980zg4909
Format
Shapefile
Languages
- English