Day 31: July 16, 2013

Today I started the day working on the 4th presentation: "Case study introduction, justification". After doing the first couple of slides, I had to go back to ArcMap to obtain the maps that I wanted to show in the presentation. FIG11 shows one of this maps, where the FRA Track Class distribution is shown for the studied route.

On the afternoon I began to work on the FRA-PHMSA crude oil release incident database. I downloaded the FRA accident database for the period 2003-2012. I obtained that in total, there have been 290 accidents involving cars that contained any kind of hazardous material. Tomorrow I plan on keep working on this database eliminating all the data that is not related to the transportation of crude oil. 

FIG11: FRA Track Class distribution

Today:

-Work on presentation 4: "Case study introduction, justification"                    (to be finished)

-Work with ArcMap to obtain the necessary maps for the presentation            (to be finished)

-Work on the Crude Oil FRA-PHMSA database                                              (to be finished)

-Attend the RailTEC weekly lunch meeting (Matt's presentation)                     (done)

Next day:

-Work on presentation 4: "Case study introduction, justification"                                        

-Work with ArcMap to obtain the necessary maps for the presentation

-Work on the Crude Oil FRA-PHMSA database