Catalog
US Bureau of Transportation Statistics
National Transportation Atlas Database
OpenL4Data productVectorLogisticsInstallations
Geographic transportation networks, facilities and associated infrastructure. This is reference context for movement analysis, not measured or live traffic.
Official product-specific platform
Category
Places and installations
Update cadence
—
Latency
—
Archive
2026 – present
Instruments
Published product-specific measurement or analysis
Sources
Official product-specific platform
Formats
GIS datasets
Pricing
Free
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
IRI
terrafabric.world/id/collection/bts-ntad
Access
Open data, retrieved directly from the source under its licence.
Access endpoints
Licence
U.S. Government Public Domain
No restrictions on use; citation requested.
open: trueattribution: falsecommercial use: true
Machine view
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