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Federal Railroad Administration

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is an agency within the Department of Transportation that is responsible for regulating and overseeing the safety of the nation's railroad systems.

Federal Railroad Administration publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Accidents API, Crossings API, Incidents API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Federal-Government, Railroads, Safety, and Transportation.

Federal Railroad Administration’s developer surface includes documentation and 4 more developer resources.

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17.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessFreemium
1 APIs
Federal-GovernmentRailroadsSafetyTransportation

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 17.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 9.4 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 1.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Federal Railroad Administration Accidents API

The Accidents API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for accidents.

Federal Railroad Administration Crossings API

The Crossings API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for crossings.

Federal Railroad Administration Incidents API

The Incidents API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for incidents.

Federal Railroad Administration Inspections API

The Inspections API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for inspections.

Federal Railroad Administration Operational Data API

The Operational Data API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for operational data.

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Railroad Administration Public Accidents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Railroad Administration Public Accidents Crossings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Railroad Administration Public Accidents Incidents API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Railroad Administration Public Accidents Inspections API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Railroad Administration Public Accidents Operational Data API

OPEN COLLECTION

Federal Railroad Administration Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Federal Railroad Administration Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Federal Railroad Administration Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Federal Railroad Administration Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Federal Railroad Administration Domain Security

DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Federal Railroad Administration Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: federal-railroad-administration
name: Federal Railroad Administration
description: The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is an agency within the Department of Transportation that is responsible
  for regulating and overseeing the safety of the nation's railroad systems.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/federal-railroad-administration.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-03-29'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Federal-Government
- Railroads
- Safety
- Transportation
tags_raw:
- Federal Government
- Railroads
- Safety
- Transportation
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/federal-railroad-administration/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: federal-railroad-administration:federal-railroad-administration-accidents-api
  name: Federal Railroad Administration Accidents API
  description: The Accidents API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for accidents.
  humanURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
  baseURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi
  tags:
  - Accidents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-railroad-administration-accidents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
- aid: federal-railroad-administration:federal-railroad-administration-crossings-api
  name: Federal Railroad Administration Crossings API
  description: The Crossings API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for crossings.
  humanURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
  baseURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi
  tags:
  - Crossings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-railroad-administration-crossings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
- aid: federal-railroad-administration:federal-railroad-administration-incidents-api
  name: Federal Railroad Administration Incidents API
  description: The Incidents API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for incidents.
  humanURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
  baseURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi
  tags:
  - Incidents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-railroad-administration-incidents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
- aid: federal-railroad-administration:federal-railroad-administration-inspections-api
  name: Federal Railroad Administration Inspections API
  description: The Inspections API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for inspections.
  humanURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
  baseURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi
  tags:
  - Inspections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-railroad-administration-inspections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
- aid: federal-railroad-administration:federal-railroad-administration-operational-data-api
  name: Federal Railroad Administration Operational Data API
  description: The Operational Data API from Federal Railroad Administration — 1 operation(s) for operational data.
  humanURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
  baseURL: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi
  tags:
  - Operational Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/federal-railroad-administration-operational-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/federal-railroad-administration-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/federal-railroad-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/federal-railroad-administration
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fra.dot.gov/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://safetydata.fra.dot.gov/MasterWebService/publicapi/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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