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    • Work Schedules and Sleep Patterns of Railroad Employees

    Metadata Updated: April 15, 2026

    The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored a study of the work schedules and sleep patterns of railroad employees. The purpose of the study was to understand work-schedule related fatigue that affects various categories of railroad employees by documenting a group's work/rest schedules and sleep patterns to ascertain their impact on the level of fatigue/alertness.Employees surveyed include: signalmen, maintenance of way (MOW) workers, dispatchers, and train & engine service workers (in both freight and passenger train service)

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    References

    http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026
    Data Update Frequency R/P1D

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOT Socrata Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 15, 2026
    Publisher Federal Railroad Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier DOT-283
    Data First Published 2008-03-01
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-14
    Category Transportation
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P1D
    Agencydataseriesurl http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
    Agencyprogramurl http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0068
    Analysisunit Employee
    Bureau Code 021:27
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.transportation.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Categorydesignation Research
    Collectioninstrument http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
    Collection Metadata true
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
    Harvest Object Id d87f9cc8-46a6-46cb-9ccd-f84b2d7af0aa
    Harvest Source Id a776e4b7-8221-443c-85ed-c5ee5db0c360
    Harvest Source Title DOT Socrata Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.transportation.gov/d/nakk-yyk5
    License https://project-open-data.cio.gov/unknown-license/
    Old Spatial N/A
    Phone 202-493-6356
    Program Code 021:000
    Related Documents http://www.fra.dot.gov/Page/P0604
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 3103553964db072166bfdbdab00bbce9e8d319c73daa1fadb82d0976e5613301
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 2003-01-01/2010-12-31

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