Freight-related data grouped together and made up of major truck streets, freight network, over legal routes, and heavy haul network. The data is maintained by the Seattle Department of Transportation and is refreshed nightly. The dataset was last updated on March 22, 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling urban freight traffic patterns based on the defined Major Truck Streets network.
- Planning for oversized or heavy cargo transport based on the Heavy Haul and Over-Legal Routes data.
- Analyzing the spatial structure of commercial logistics based on the integrated Freight Network feature classes.
Strengths
- Data is maintained and updated nightly by the Seattle Department of Transportation.
- Offered in multiple geospatial formats including KML, GeoPackage, and GeoJSON for interoperability.
- Integrates four distinct feature classes (MajTrkStrts, FMP_FreightNetwork, Freight_OverLegalRoutes, Freight_HeavyHaulNetwork) for a multi-faceted view.
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.
Provenance
- Source
- Seattle Department of Transportation
- Collection Method
- Maintained by the city transportation department.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Nightly refresh; last updated 2026-03-22 03:35:37.110712.
- Geography
- Seattle, Washington, USA