Highway-Rail Crossings Inventory Data

The entire National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory is available in three separate downloadble files. There is a file of all current Public-at-Grade crossings. There is a file of all current Private and grade-separated crossings. There is also a file which contains about 10 years of archival records for all types of crossings.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
accrualPeriodicity R/P1M
agencyDataSeriesURL https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi
agencyProgramURL http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/
analysisUnit Individual Crossing
bureauCode {021:27}
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categoryDesignation Research
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collection_metadata true
dataQuality true
describedBy http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Documents/GCIS%20Electronic%20Submissions%20Instructions.pdf
describedByType application/pdf
identifier DOT-224
issued 2010-09-29
landingPage https://data.transportation.gov/d/p8qw-xvej
language {en-US}
license https://project-open-data.cio.gov/unknown-license/
modified 2018-12-19
phone 202-493-6285
programCode {021:036}
publisher Federal Railroad Administration
references {http://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/OfficeofSafety/Documents/GCIS%20Electronic%20Submissions%20Instructions.pdfhttps://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/PublicApi/Develop/QuickStartGuide}
resource-type Dataset
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source_hash 917d3e8088c3011354a9785ec9b000642c9229f3
source_schema_version 1.1
temporal R/1975-01-31/P1M
theme {Transportation}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • acts-of-god
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • collisions
  • derailments
  • explosions
  • fires
  • geo
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • rail
  • united-states
isopen False
license_id other-license-specified
license_title other-license-specified
maintainer Ronald Ries
maintainer_email Ronald.Ries@dot.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T14:28:27.452362
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T14:28:27.452366
notes The entire National Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory is available in three separate downloadble files. There is a file of all current Public-at-Grade crossings. There is a file of all current Private and grade-separated crossings. There is also a file which contains about 10 years of archival records for all types of crossings.
num_resources 1
num_tags 14
title Highway-Rail Crossings Inventory Data