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NETWORKS ON RAILSANALYSIS OF RAILROAD CONNECTIONS IN THE WESTERN
UNITED STATES
PRESENTATION: SAM DELANEY
CS 765
14 OCT 2014
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BREAKDOWN
• The problem – A quick review
• Data collection
• Data cleaning
• Plan of Action
• Wrap up and Review
• Questions
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THE PROBLEM!WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT AGAIN?
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WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO DO?
• Given the state of the network today…
• Can we provide network analysis?
• Is any of the analysis useful?
• For government agencies?
• For private sector?
• For educational purposes?
• Compared to the network of old…
• Can we predict future layouts?
• How and why did it evolve the way it did?
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WHY IS THIS PROBLEM IMPORTANT?
• Business application
• Government taxation and regulation
• Military assets
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DATA COLLECTIONWHERE DO WE LOOK?
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RAILROADS MAPPED
• Waybill
• Provided by US Govt
• Latest data – 2012
• Public report
• Private report
• Class I railroads
• Tonnage
• Revenue
• Carload
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DATA DATA DATA
• CTA
• Contains every railroad route in the US, Canada, and Mexico
• Active since 1993
• Developed exclusively for:
• Network Programming
• Traffic Analysis
• Mapping Applications
• Jackpot?
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OTHER PARAMETERS
• American Association of Railroads (AAR)
• Up to date data
• Superior customization
• Does most of the heavy lifting
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DATA CLEANINGSO MANY NUMBERS… MUCH ANALYSIS…
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WHO’S INVITEDClass I Railroads
Class II Railroads
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HOW DATA IS FORMATTED
• Represent the physical rail system in digital form
• Geographical
• NDR files – Contains location nodes
• LLR files – Contains link attributes
• LCR files – Contains Link locations
• Interline
• ILN file – contains locations where traffic is transferred between railroad companies
• History
• DAT file – contains locations ancestors and descendants
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TOOLS FOR THE JOB
• RHA – reformats files into a Q (railroad) network
• RQCFS – writes the resulting RHA output info GIS format based on a specific date.
• Very useful for evolution of network
• GIS – Mapping software to observe the rail network
• PANJEK – Network analysis tool we all know and love
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SO MANY NODES
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THE PLANSHOVE IT ALL INTO PAJEK
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ANALYSIS BREAKDOWN :GENERAL NETWORK
PHYSICAL NETWORK (TRACKS)
• Small world?
• Diameter
• Main hubs• Betweeness
• Closeness
TRAIN NETWORK (ROUTES)
• Small world?
• Diameter
• Main hubs
• Betweeness
• Closeness
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SAMPLE NETWORKS
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ANALYSIS BREAKDOWN:EVOLUTION• What hubs have gained/lost betweeness? Clustering?
• Has the diameter changed?
• Is it power law growth?
• Link to factors
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CAN FIX?• Ultimately can we “improve”
the network
• How well it does it compare to:
• The airline network?
• The freeway?
• What is the cost ramification for these changes?
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THE WRAP UPCONNECT THE DOTS
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WRAP UP
• What was the problem?
• How are we going to get data?
• How do we make that data useful?
• How are we going to analyze this “useful” data?
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QUESTIONS?