DATABASE NAME

     SEC15:  Transit Agency Locations

DATABASE DESCRIPTION

     Transit agency locations for transit agencies that are
     required to report information to the Federal Transit
     Administration according to Section 15.

ORIGINATING AGENCY

     Bureau of Transportation Statistics

AGENCY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING DATA

     Bureau of Transportation Statistics

CONTACT

     National Transportation Atlas Databases
     Bureau of Transportation Statistics
     U.S. Department of Transportation
     Washington, DC  20590
     (202) 366-DATA
     Internet:  info@bts.gov

SOURCE

     1:100,000 1980 Census Master Area Reference File
     supplemented by editing performed by Vanderbilt University
     for the Bureau of Transportation Statistics

ACCURACY

     80 m (260 ft) root-mean square positional accuracy

TYPE OF GIS DATABASE

     Point database with nodes

FILES/SIZE/NUMBER OF RECORDS

     One ASCII file

     1)   sec15.pnt      point file contains point locations and
                         attributes

     Approximate size of file:     34,000 bytes
     Approximate number of nodes:  500

FILE STRUCTURE

     The file is ASCII-comma delimited.  Character fields are
     enclosed in quotation marks.

     The Node File

   FIELD  ITEM                TYPE      REMARKS

     1    ID                  Char      Unique identification
                                        number
     2    Longitude           Float     Longitude of place
                                        (decimal degrees with
                                        explicit decimal)
     3    Latitude            Float     Latitude of place
                                        (decimal degrees with
                                        explicit decimal)
     4    State               Char      State postal code
     5    Name                Char      Name of city/place
     6    Sec15 Number        Char      FTA Section 15
                                        identification number
     7    Transit Name        Char      Name of company managing
                                        the transit system

DISCUSSION

     Development of this database consisted of matching the name
     of Section 15 reporting agencies with the name of places in
     the 1980 Census Master Area Reference File.  Section 15 IDs
     were taken from Transportation Data Sampler-2.  When no
     match could be found, the latitude and longitude fields were
     filled with zeros.

     This was an initial attempt at geo-coding locations of
     reporting agencies and no guarantees are made or implied for
     the fitness of this data.  Please review it carefully before
     using it.

     The database contains one record for each Section 15
     reporting number.

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