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Is Transit Authority

Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a transit authority in the Other Transaction IDV record. It is a site-level government-entity attribute tied to the vendor location information, not a general vendor classification for all awards.

Family: Other Transaction IDV
Category: Vendor Site Details
Data Type: boolean_or_code_flag
Semantic Type: flag
Mapping: flattened_fpds_xml_field
AI Confidence: high

Variable Overview

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isTransitAuthority
Title
Is Transit Authority
FPDS Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isTransitAuthority
Description
Boolean or coded flag indicating whether the vendor site is identified as a transit authority in the Other Transaction IDV record. It is a site-level government-entity attribute tied to the vendor location information, not a general vendor classification for all awards.
Business Meaning
This field helps analysts isolate awards associated with transit authorities for market segmentation, public infrastructure spending analysis, and oversight of transactions involving quasi-governmental transportation entities. It can also support compliance, program, and stakeholder reporting where transit-related recipients need to be separated from other government or non-government vendors.
Example Value
0
Observed Non-Null Count
13,417

FPDS Compare

FPDS Query Variable
content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isTransitAuthority
FPDS XML Path
OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isTransitAuthority
Mapping Type
flattened_fpds_xml_field
Comparison Summary
FPDS Query flattens the original nested FPDS XML path 'OtherTransactionIDV/contractDetail/vendor/vendorSiteDetails/typeOfGovernmentEntity/isTransitAuthority' into the SQL-ready variable 'content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isTransitAuthority'.

Use Cases

  • Dictionary lookup and field explanation
  • SQL filtering and grouping
  • Analytical reporting and reusable query building
  • Contractor profiling and competitor analysis

Common Usage

  • Filter records where the vendor site is a transit authority
  • Segment award volumes or obligations to transit-related entities
  • Support compliance or oversight checks for government-entity recipients

Common Mistakes

  • Treating the flag as a general vendor type instead of a vendor site attribute
  • Assuming 0 always means false without checking the dataset's coded values

Query Guidance

Use this field in WHERE clauses to isolate transit-authority records, for example by matching the affirmative coded value in the local extract. If the table stores mixed encodings or paired description fields, normalize values first and then group or count on the standardized flag.

SQL Examples

Preview values

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isTransitAuthority AS is_transit_authority
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isTransitAuthority IS NOT NULL
LIMIT 25

Flag distribution

SELECT
    content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isTransitAuthority AS flag_value,
    count() AS record_count
FROM fpds.data
WHERE content__OtherTransactionIDV__contractDetail__vendor__vendorSiteDetails__typeOfGovernmentEntity__isTransitAuthority IS NOT NULL
GROUP BY flag_value
ORDER BY record_count DESC

Each dictionary item includes SQL-ready examples generated alongside the variable metadata, allowing immediate use in FPDS Query for filtering, aggregation, and analysis.