Abstract

Modernizing FRA's Rail Freight Routing and Analysis Tools
Track: Railways
Authors: Raquel Hunt, Gary Baker

For over 20 years the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has maintained a GIS based national rail network and flowed Surface Transportation Board’s Carload Waybill Sample data on it to inform policy decisions. Using ArcGIS Pro and Python, FRA and Volpe have been modernizing existing tools and developing new ones in order to provide more dynamic insight into railroad movements and trends.