Transit Village Centerpoints, New Jersey

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Originator:

Steven Karp, NJ Department of State, Office for Planning Advocacy (OPA)

Publication_Date: 20160613

Title: Transit Village Centerpoints, New Jersey

Edition:

2 - This release uses a method different from releases of previous years for locating centerpoints,

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Trenton, NJ

Publisher:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Online_Linkage: <http://njgin.state.nj.us/oit/gis/download/TransitVillageNJ.zip>

Description:

Abstract:

A designated Transit Village is the area around a transit facility that the municipality has demonstrated a commitment to revitalizing and redeveloping into a compact, mixed-use neighborhood with a strong residential component. The municipality must apply for designation and must meet the Transit Village Criteria. The program is administered by the NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT), which provides information on the program Web site <http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/community/village/index.shtml>. This feature class replaces the previous edition of the Transit Village points. This edition uses the same methodology for all the rail station and bus terminal center points. The points are located by using the outside corners of the platform or platforms to create a rectangle, and then extracting the centroid of the rectangle for each station or terminal. Center points for indoor or underground platforms were estimated from entrances (see source record for details.)

Purpose:

This spatial data set was created to locate the designated Transit Village Initiative station centerpoints and then determine those areas within 1/2 mile of the designated centerpoints, for general planning and cartographic use. This is not a legal document. The points were not surveyed and should not be used as survey data.

Supplemental_Information:

As of June 2016 there were 32 Transit Villages: Located at three bus terminals and twenty-nine rail stations.
Because of the new, consistent methodology for locating the station center points, most of the points are in slightly different locations from releases of previous years. Position differences range from 0 to 156 ft.
Note that the location of the East Orange Transit Village at the East Orange station was in error in numerous previous data releases. This was corrected to the Brick Church station for the release of August, 2015.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20160526

Currentness_Reference: Ground condition

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: Irregular

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -75.073974

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -73.982667

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.033667

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.389370

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Theme_Keyword: transportation

Theme_Keyword: smart growth

Theme_Keyword: transit village

Theme_Keyword: rail station

Theme_Keyword: bus terminal

Theme_Keyword: economy

Theme_Keyword: Transit Village Initiative (TVI) Station Centerpoints

Theme_Keyword: bus station

Theme_Keyword: TVI

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Categories

Theme_Keyword: transportation

Theme_Keyword: economy

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None

Place_Keyword: New Jersey

Access_Constraints:

Contact NJ DOT Division of Statewide Planning, Office of Transportation & Sustainable Communities for detailed information about designated Transit Villages and the Transit Village Initiative.

Use_Constraints:

The points were NOT surveyed and should not be used as survey data. This data set was created using Urban Transit Hub, Transit Village, and Economic Opportunity Act legislation and should be used for general planning purposes only. This data set should NOT be used as the final determination for properties located within 1/2 mile of a transit station.Also see Dates, Purpose, Data Quality, Constraint, and Distribution sections in this metadata record for conditions that limit appropriate uses. Acknowledgement of the data set providers: NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS); and NJ Department of State (SOS), Office for Planning Advocacy (OPA), would be appreciated for maps, data or other products derived from this data set. See Legal Constraints, Limitations of Use (Distribution Liability) for legal disclaimer.

Data_Set_Credit:

Source location points created and maintained by Steven Karp, NJ Department of State, Office for Planning Advocacy.

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.3.1.4959

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Station names were checked against provider schedules and/or maps posted online at the providers' official Web sites. Transit Village names were checked against NJDOT Transit Village FAQ page list of designated Villages, except for Hackensack which was not yet listed. See <http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/community/village/faq.shtm> .

Logical_Consistency_Report:

All points were derived from station center point data developed for the Economic Opportunity Act mapping by Steven Karp, Office for Planning Advocacy, NJ Department of State.

Completeness_Report:

Points are included for all villages designated as of the time period of content (temporal extent) date.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Source points were digitized from 2012 and 2015 orthophotography with 1:2400 nominal scale, 1 foot pixels, and design accuracy of +/- 4 ft at 95% confidence interval.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Steven Karp, NJ Department of State, Office for Planning Advocacy (OPA)

Publication_Date: 20140522

Title:

New Jersey Transit Passenger Rail Station Platform Mid-points, 2014 (NAD83, NJSP feet)

Source_Scale_Denominator: 2400

Type_of_Source_Media: onLine

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20160404

Source_Currentness_Reference: Ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation:

New Jersey Transit Passenger Rail Station Platform Mid-points, 2014 (NAD83, NJSP feet)

Source_Contribution:

Passenger rail station platform mid-points for rail, light rail, and subway service lines operated by New Jersey Transit and connecting commuter lines. Points are located at the midpoint of the extent of single side station platforms and midpoint of the extent of combined platforms when on both sides of the track(s)- that is on the tracks. This was done by creating a new polygon layer with rectangles digitized that described the outermost points of the station platform or platforms if on both sides of the tracks, based on the 2012 orthophotography. That means that when both sides of the tracks had platforms, both sides were encompassed by the rectangle and the point is located on the tracks between the platforms. When the platorm is on one side, the point is on the platform. When subway platforms were not visible, the extent of the entrances was used. For some of the large indoor stations, points are just an estimate. The rectangle layer was then used to generate a centroid point.
The same general approach was used for Bus terminals needed for the EOA14 layer.

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

NJ Department of Transportation (NJDOT), Division of Statewide Planning, Office of Transportation & Sustainable Communities

Publication_Date: 20160406

Title: Transit Village Initiative Frequently Asked Questions

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document

Other_Citation_Details: Date cited is the access date by NJOIT, OGIS.

Online_Linkage:

<http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/community/village/faq.shtm> .

Type_of_Source_Media: onLine

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20151230

Source_Currentness_Reference: Ground condition

Source_Citation_Abbreviation: faq.shtm

Source_Contribution:

List of designated Transit Villages, with name and year of designation, published on World Wide Web.

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The Transit Village centerpoint in East Orange was moved to the Brick Church station, which is where the Village was designated. The previous location, at the East Orange station, was in error.

Process_Date: 20150821

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Contact_Person: Edith Konopka

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 212

City: Trenton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08625-0212

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609-777-3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: edith.konopka@oit.nj.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9-4

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Transit Village center points received from Steven Karp, NJ Department of State, Office for Planning Advocacy, were examined, and Transit Village names were edited to match previously-published data. Attributes from previous data were copied via join on Transit Village name. Attributes were added for the newly-designated Hackensack Transit Village. X and Y values were re-calculated using ArcMap Calculate Geometry function on data in a WGS84 data frame, using transformation WGS_1984_(ITRF00)_To_NAD_1983 against NAD83 NJ State Plane data. COMMENTS field was edited to reflect only meaningful comments for current data.

Process_Date: 20160405

Process_Time: 113000

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Contact_Person: Edith Konopka

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 212

City: Trenton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08625-0212

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609-777-3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: edith.konopka@oit.nj.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9-4

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Transit Village names were checked against NJDOT published list (<http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/community/village/faq.shtm>) and corrected as necessary. Hackensack was checked against local published news account. Station names were checked against published schedules and maps from each transit provider (NJ Transit, PATH, PATCO) and corrected as necessary.

Process_Date: 20160406

Process_Time: 130000

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Contact_Person: Edith Konopka

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 212

City: Trenton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08625-0212

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609-777-3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: edith.konopka@oit.nj.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9-4

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

East Orange Transit Village center point was moved and snapped to station center point for Brick Church rail station. X and Y values were re-calculated.

Process_Date: 20160406

Process_Time: 133000

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Contact_Person: Edith Konopka

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 212

City: Trenton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08625-0212

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609-777-3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: edith.konopka@oit.nj.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9-4

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Point for Long Branch Transit Village, supplied by Steven Karp on 2016-05-27, was added by appending to the shapefile version of the data. X and Y values were re-calculated as described above. Record was then edited to fill in other pertinent fields. A GUID was generated using the online GUID generator at www.guidgen.com, based on Microsoft GuidGen tool.
Metadata were edited.

Process_Date: 20160608

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Contact_Person: Edith Konopka

Contact_Position: GIS Specialist

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 212

City: Trenton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08625-0212

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609-777-3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: edith.konopka@oit.nj.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9-4

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: Entity point

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 32

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: Tran_tvi_ctr

Entity_Type_Definition: Transit Village station center points

Entity_Type_Definition_Source: NJ Department of Transportation, Office of Statewide Planning

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: OBJECTID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: Esri

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: TRANSIT_VLG

Attribute_Definition: Name of the Transit Village as published by NJDOT

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT - OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

List of designated Transit Villages: <http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/community/village/faq.shtm>

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: STATION

Attribute_Definition: Name of train station or bus terminal

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT, OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Text string names of stations as published by NJ TRANSIT, PATH, and PATCO.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LINE

Attribute_Definition: Train or bus line served

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT, OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Text string names of lines as published by New Jersey Transit, PATH, PATCO. Bus routes captured from Wikipedia listing at the time the Transit Village point was added to the data set.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LINE_2

Attribute_Definition: Train or bus line variant or additional line served

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT, OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Text string names of lines or variants as published by New Jersey Transit, PATH, PATCO. Bus routes captured from Wikipedia listing at the time the Transit Village point was added to the data set.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MODE_T

Attribute_Definition: Text names of service systems

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJDOT

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Text description of primary transit mode.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: X

Attribute_Definition:

Longitude (geographic coordinates) of the Transit Village center point.

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT, OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Signed decimal degrees

Range_Domain_Minimum: -75.593271

Range_Domain_Maximum: -73.860308

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Y

Attribute_Definition:

Latitude (geographic coordinates) of the Transit Village center point.

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJDOT

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Attribute_Units_of_Measure: Signed decimal degrees

Range_Domain_Minimum: 38.849424

Range_Domain_Maximum: 41.357794

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COMMENTS

Attribute_Definition: Notes on data development and methods

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Text string descriptions

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: YR_DESIGNA

Attribute_Definition: Year designated as a transit village

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT, OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Range_Domain:

Range_Domain_Minimum: 1999

Range_Domain_Maximum: 2016

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LINE_3

Attribute_Definition: Train or bus line variant or additional line served

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT, OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Text string names of lines or variants as published by New Jersey Transit, PATH, PATCO. Bus routes captured from Wikipedia listing at the time the Transit Village point was added to the data set.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: GUID_ID

Attribute_Definition: Globally-unique identfier

Attribute_Definition_Source: NJOIT, OGIS

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Globally unique identifer string. Values for 2016 and before records were calculated from Esri GLOBALID field.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 212

City: Trenton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08625-0212

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609.633.9103

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 609.633.0400

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: njgin@oit.nj.gov

Distribution_Liability:

The State of New Jersey makes great effort to provide secure, accurate, and complete data and metadata. However, portions of the data and metadata may be incorrect or not current. Any errors or omissions should be reported for investigation.
The State of New Jersey, its officers, employees or agents shall not be liable for damages or losses of any kind arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of data and metadata, including but not limited to, damages or losses caused by reliance upon the accuracy or timeliness of any such data and metadata, or damages incurred from the viewing, distributing, or copying of those materials.
The data and metadata are provided "as is." No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed, or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the data and metadata, or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources.
The State disclaims any duty or obligation either to maintain availability of or to update the data and metadata.

Standard_Order_Process:

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Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Shapefile and File Geodatabase

Format_Version_Number: 10

File_Decompression_Technique: zip

Transfer_Size: 0.230

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name: <http://njgin.state.nj.us/oit/gis/download/TransitVillageNJ.zip>

Fees: none

Ordering_Instructions: Download from NJGIN Data Download page or via metadata link.

Available_Time_Period:

Time_Period_Information:

Single_Date/Time:

Calendar_Date: 20160613

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20160608

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization:

NJ Office of Information Technology (NJOIT), Office of Geographic Information Systems (OGIS)

Contact_Person: Edith Konopka

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing

Address: PO Box 212

City: Trenton

State_or_Province: NJ

Postal_Code: 08625-0212

Country: US

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 609.777.3774

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: edith.konopka@oit.nj.gov

Hours_of_Service: 9-4

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Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time