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Work Schedules and Sleep Patterns of Railroad Employees

Metadata Updated: October 10, 2024

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored a study of the work schedules and sleep patterns of railroad employees. The purpose of the study was to understand work-schedule related fatigue that affects various categories of railroad employees by documenting a group's work/rest schedules and sleep patterns to ascertain their impact on the level of fatigue/alertness.Employees surveyed include: signalmen, maintenance of way (MOW) workers, dispatchers, and train & engine service workers (in both freight and passenger train service)

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References

http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date October 10, 2024
Data Update Frequency R/P1D

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date October 10, 2024
Publisher Federal Railroad Administration
Maintainer
Identifier DOT-283
Data First Published 2008-03-01
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2024-10-09
Category Transportation
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1D
Agencydataseriesurl http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
Agencyprogramurl http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0068
Analysisunit Employee
Bureau Code 021:27
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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
Categorydesignation Research
Collectioninstrument http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
Collection Metadata true
Data Quality True
Data Dictionary http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
Harvest Object Id 96fa6866-db60-447f-b956-2a1f5716ad49
Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/nakk-yyk5
License https://project-open-data.cio.gov/unknown-license/
Old Spatial N/A
Phone 202-493-6356
Program Code 021:000
Related Documents http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 8ec2f3984569f502f09fd54944e41e417b31884d8858f96337167c79cccd7b07
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2003-01-01/2010-12-31

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