Freight-related geospatial data for the City of Seattle, maintained by the Seattle Department of Transportation. The dataset is comprised of four feature classes: major truck streets, a freight network, over legal routes, and a heavy haul network. It is updated nightly, with the last recorded update in March 2026.
Use Cases
- Route planning for oversized or heavy freight vehicles based on the heavy haul network.
- Analyzing permitted freight corridors and truck traffic patterns based on the major truck streets and freight network.
- Identifying legal routes for freight transport that exceed standard weight or size limits.
- Visualizing the spatial structure of Seattle's freight infrastructure for planning purposes.
Strengths
- Data is maintained and updated nightly by the Seattle Department of Transportation.
- Contains four distinct, named feature classes covering different aspects of freight infrastructure.
- Available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats including GeoPackage, KML, and CSV.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Seattle Department of Transportation
- Collection Method
- Maintained by the city transportation department.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Nightly Refresh
- Geography
- City of Seattle