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Rail Data Definitions

Metadata Updated: June 14, 2025

This section is intended to provide detailed information about some of the terms found on the FRA Safety Data site. Many of these definitions, and more detailed explanations, can be found in FRA Guide for Preparing Accident/Incident Reports.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date August 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date June 14, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date June 14, 2025
Publisher Federal Railroad Administration
Maintainer
Identifier https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/hsik-vfxx
Data First Published 2023-08-08
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-06-13
Category Railroads
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 021:27
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 4c5b17e2-854f-49a4-8008-e90ed1de0c67
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/hsik-vfxx
Program Code 021:036
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash b02340216ff6d4d515ef8ee1521c9ade562afa221e6fbd13024cfffa7a7dae14
Source Schema Version 1.1

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