Intermodal hub location information for national and regional rail network analysis

The U.S. Intermodal Hubs data set identifies facilities to aide in freight planning and tracking.

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Overview Benefits Details

The U.S Intermodal Hubs data set identifies more than 3,000 intermodal hubs.

Intermodal hubs are points to designate facilities where freight shipments are handled by two or more modes of transportation to move a shipment from origin to destination. Those modes of transportation might include railroads, truck lines and/or barge operators.


Benefits

  • Provides location and attribute information for use in national and regional cartographic and network analysis applications.
  • Helps the user gain insight into business issues.
Features and Tools
  • Gives geographic data for trailer-on-flatcar and container-on-flatcar highway-rail and/or rail-water transfer facilities in the U.S.
  • Specifies the intermodal connections at each facility; i.e., the modes involved in the intermodal transfer and the alpha code for the name of the railroad serving the facility.
  • Identifies each intermodal hub by name.
  • Includes key information about each hub


Product Layers/Configuration

  • Intermodal Hub (facility) Name.
  • Facility County—Contains the county or county-equivalent in which the facility is located.
  • Facility State—Contains the state in which the facility is located.
  • Modes of transportation (rail, highway, water) used to serve the facility.
  • Standard Carrier Alpha Code.
Coverage: 50 States, D.C.
Release Schedule: December 2012
Unit of Sale: U.S.
Scale: 1:100,000
Source: DeskMap Systems, Inc.