PatchOps

Available tools

6 tools

Tool	Description
`searchRailLines`	North American rail network, filter by owner (RROWNER1: BNSF/UP/CSXT/NS/CN/CPKC), state, county FIPS, bbox, passenger flag.
`searchPorts`	DIPT principal ports (175) with vessel calls + gross tonnage by state, coast region, bbox.
`searchLocksAndDams`	Navigation lock-bearing dams from the NID (~196 default). Filter by state, owner type, bbox; pass withLocksOnly=false for all ~92K dams.
`searchAirports`	FAA aviation facilities (~19.4K). Filter by state, county, siteType (A/H/C/U/G/B), facilityUse (PU/PR), arptId.
`searchIntermodalTerminals`	Intermodal freight terminals, pass terminalType: pipeline / liquid-bulk / rail-tofc-cofc / marine-roro. crudeOnly + refinedOnly available for pipeline.
`getServiceInfo`	Schema, fields, and record counts for the 8 curated services.

About

Bureau of Transportation Statistics National Transportation Atlas Database, curated to infrastructure layers relevant to crude-by-rail, supply-chain, and industrial logistics. Covers the North American Rail Network (~302K segments with Class I owners BNSF / UP / CSXT / NS / CN / CPKC, passenger flag, division, subdivision, branch, miles), DIPT 2020 principal ports (175 ports with vessel-call frequency and gross tonnage by Atlantic / Gulf / Pacific / Great Lakes / Inland coast region), the National Inventory of Dams subset that contains navigation locks (~196 lock-bearing dams by default; the full ~92K is also queryable), FAA aviation facilities (~19.4K airports / heliports / seaplane bases by site type, public/private use, FAA airport identifier), and intermodal freight facilities split by terminal type: pipeline terminals (~1.4K with Y/N/NA flags for crude oil / refined / NGL / gasoline / distillate / biodiesel / jet fuel / ethanol), liquid bulk facilities (~640 polygons with capacity in barrels), rail TOFC/COFC terminals (~241), and marine roll-on/roll-off (~84). All searches accept bbox spatial filters; results are returned in WGS84. The tenant exposes 999+ services; this connector curates to the 8 layers most relevant for industrial transportation analysis.

Requirements

Toggle on
Toggle on and use, no setup needed.

Setup

A few steps to connect your AI agents to BTS National Transportation Atlas.

Get started

1
Toggle Connector On
Open /mcp and turn on BTS National Transportation Atlas with the environmental switch, no credentials needed.
2
Start Querying
Call the bts-ntad MCP tool, start with method=searchRailLines, method=searchPorts, or method=getServiceInfo.

Connect to your AI assistant

Pick the tool your team uses for the exact setup steps.

1
Open Claude settings
Launch Claude, click the profile button (bottom left), and go to Settings.
2
Access connectors
Open the Connectors tab, scroll to the bottom, and click “Add custom connector”.
3
Name your connector
Enter any name you’d like for this connector.
4
Get the connector URL
Log in to PatchOps, open the /mcp page, and copy the connector URL you want to use.
5
Add the connector
Paste the URL into the “Remote MCP server URL” box and click Add.
6
Start using
Your BTS National Transportation Atlas connector is ready to use in Claude.