Weekly actual and planned coal loadings from the Surface Transportation Board's (STB) Rail Service Metrics. Railroads provide the average daily count (per week) of unit train coal traffic from major coal producing regions. They have the option of providing this metric on a train- or carload basis. For example, BNSF reports the average daily loadings for the week of coal unit trains. CSX, on the other hand, reports on a carload basis. Data are broken out by coal production region.
This dataset has the following 8 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | date | calendar_date | Week ending dates, ranging from 03/29/2017 to the present. | 2023-11-01T00:00:00.000 2020-04-22T00:00:00.000 2019-02-27T00:00:00.000 2023-05-24T00:00:00.000 2023-03-22T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Week | week | number | Week number calculated from the reported week ending date (Date field). Week 1 is the first week of the year with a week ending date falling on or after January 4. In other words, it is the first reported week of data which includes four days in the new year. Values range from 1 to 52 or 53, depending on the year. | 22 20 14 17 15 view top 100 |
| Month | month | number | Month number calculated from the reported week ending date (Date field). Week ending dates falling before the fourth day of the month are assigned to the previous month. For example, a week ending date falling on February 1st, 2nd, or 3rd would correspond to “1” (January), since there are less than four days in the reported week that fall in February. Values range from 1 through 12, where 1 refers to January, 2 to February, etc. | 5 4 3 12 10 view top 100 |
| Year | year | number | Year number calculated from the reported week ending date (Date field). Week ending dates falling on or after January 4 correspond to the calendar year of the reported week. Week ending dates falling on or before January 3 correspond to the previous calendar year. For example, a week ending date falling on January 2, 2018 would be “2017.” Values range from 2017 to the present. | 2023 2021 2022 2019 2018 view top 100 |
| Railroad | railroad | text | Railroad name (one of 7 Class I railroads). | CN CP BNSF CSX NS view top 100 |
| Region | region | text | Coal production region (e.g., Central Appalachia, Powder River Basin, etc.). | Central Appalachia Northern Appalachia Southern Appalachia Illinois Basin Powder River Basin view top 100 |
| Loadings_Plan | loadings_plan | number | Planned average daily coal unit train loadings for the reporting week by coal production region. Measurement is either a train- or carload-basis. | 0 3 2 0.1 0.3 view top 100 |
| Loadings_Average | loadings_average | number | Actual average daily coal unit train loadings for the reporting week by coal production region. Measurement is either a train- or carload-basis. | 0 1 0.1 1.6 1.9 view top 100 |