The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service has announced that it has upgraded its Agricultural Transportation Open Data Platform with new datasets and dashboards about the four modes—rail, truck, barge and ocean vessel—used to transport agricultural products.
This is the second major expansion to the platform launched in June 2019 and maintained by AMS’s Transportation Services Division, according to a news release. The platform has more than 30,000 subscribers to its transportation-related data reports, the agency said.
The updated platform, AgTransport 3.0 for short, includes new information that can help users visualize data about international transport costs, which could be used to help better understand international trade competitiveness.
