Freight and Goods Transportation System of Washington – Rail Corridors

ISO-19139 Metadata

Resource Identification Information:

Citation:
Title:  Freight and Goods Transportation System of Washington – Rail Corridors

Reference date - publication:  2023-12-15

Presentation format:  mapDigital

Party responsible for the resource - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Aaron Garland
Organization's name: Washington State Department of Transportation Division of Rail Freight and Ports
Contact's position: Rail & Freight Data Analyst

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 360-705-7139
Address:
e-mail address: Garlana@wsdot.wa.gov
Themes or categories of the resource:  transportation

Place keywords:
Keywords:  Washington State

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  transportation, freight, railroad

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  transportation, freight, railroad

Theme keywords:
Keywords:  transportation, freight, railroad

Descriptive keywords:
Keywords:  Downloadable Data

Thesaurus name: ArcGIS Content Type
Abstract:  The Washington State Freight and Goods Transportation System (FGTS) classifies freight corridors by modes in Washington state based on annual freight tonnage moved, including truck, rail, and waterway freight corridors. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) designates and updates the FGTS every two years. This dataset depicts the rail freight corridors classified under FGTS system, and provides information on railroad name, segment location, ownership and operators, and corridor classifications in tiers. This dataset is based on rail inventory and volume information collected for data year 2024 and published in 2025 FGTS update.Two other GIS datasets are also available and published for 2025 FGTS update, including FGTS Truck Corridors, and FGTS Waterway Corridors. For more information about FGTS system, please visit https://wsdot.wa.gov/construction-planning/statewide-plans/freight-plans

Purpose: Inventory of railroads actively operated in Washington state and used for freight shipment. The Washington State Freight and Goods Transportation System (FGTS) is updated and maintained to meet RCW requirements. It also provides a valuable freight data source to support various planning processes, and inform freight investment decisions.

Dataset language:  eng
Dataset character set:  utf8

Status:  planned
Maintenance:
Update frequency:  unknown


Resource constraints:
Constraints:
Limitations of use: For planning use only. The Washington State Department of Transportation shall not be liable for any activity involving these data with regard to lost profits or savings or any other consequential damages; or the fitness for use of the data for a particular purpose; or the installation of the data, its use, or the results obtained.

Resource constraints:
Legal constraints:
Limitations of use: See access and use constraints information.

Spatial representation type:  vector

Processing environment:  Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.9.1.28388

Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
West longitude: -124.048954
East longitude: -116.869885
North latitude: 49.035148
South latitude: 45.520143
Extent:
Extent description: ground condition

2023-12-15T00:00:00
Extent:
Geographic element - Bounding rectangle:
Extent contains the resource: true
West longitude: -124.048954
East longitude: -116.869885
North latitude: 49.035148
South latitude: 45.520143
Credits: WSDOT Rail, Freight and Ports Division

Point of contact - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Aaron Garland
Organization's name: WSDOT Rail, Freight and Ports Division
Contact's position: Rail and Freight Data Analyst

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 360-705-7139
Address:
Delivery point: 310 Maple Park Avenue SE
City: Olympia
Administrative area: Washington
Postal code: 98504
e-mail address: garlana@wsdot.wa.gov

Spatial Representation - Vector:

Level of topology for this dataset:  geometryOnly
Geometric objects:
Object type:  composite
Object count: 121

Reference System Information:

Reference system identifier:
Value: 2927
Code space: EPSG
Version: 6.3(9.0.0)

Distribution Information:

Distributor:
Distributor information - distributor: 
Individual's name: Jordyn Mitchell
Organization's name: Washington State Department of Transportation, Office of Information Technology
Contact's position: GIS Database Administrator

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 360-705-7645
Address:
Delivery point: PO Box 47430
City: Olympia
Administrative area: WA
Postal code: 98504-7430
Country:  US
e-mail address: mitchejo@wsdot.wa.gov
Ordering process:
Terms and fees: none
Turnaround time: Download individual data sets from https://gisdata-wsdot.opendata.arcgis.com

Format:
Format name: Feature Class

Transfer options:

Metadata Information:

Metadata language:  eng
Metadata character set:  utf8


Last update:  2023-12-12

Metadata contact - pointOfContact: 
Individual's name: Aaron Garland
Organization's name: Washington State Department of Transportation Division of Rail Freight and Ports
Contact's position: Rail & Freight Data Analyst

Contact information:
Phone:
Voice: 360-705-7139
Address:
e-mail address: Garlana@wsdot.wa.gov
Scope of the data described by the metadata:  dataset
Scope name: dataset

Name of the metadata standard used: ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Version of the metadata standard: 2007