BAX Beginning Segment for Advance Consist and Transportation Automatic Equipment ID
To transmit identifying numbers, dates, and other basic data relating to the transaction set
Sequence
Element
Name
Type
Requirement
Min
Max
Repeat
Code specifying the Standard Point Location code defined by National Motor
Freight Tariff Association (NMFTA) or the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
point development group as the official code assigned to a city or point (for
ratemaking purposes) within a city
Code indicating the type of consist
Codes (13)
Code specifying type of date or time, or both date and time
Codes (1343)
Date expressed as CCYYMMDD where CC represents the first two digits of the
calendar year
Time expressed in 24-hour clock time as follows: HHMM, or HHMMSS, or HHMMSSD,
or HHMMSSDD, where H = hours (00-23), M = minutes (00-59), S = integer seconds
(00-59) and DD = decimal seconds; decimal seconds are expressed as follows: D =
tenths (0-9) and DD = hundredths (00-99)
Train identification (free-form)
Code specifying the Standard Point Location code defined by National Motor
Freight Tariff Association (NMFTA) or the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA)
point development group as the official code assigned to a city or point (for
ratemaking purposes) within a city
Reference information as defined for a particular Transaction Set or as
specified by the Reference Identification Qualifier
BAX08 is the Reader Identification Number.
Code identifying geographic direction
Codes (16)
Date expressed as CCYYMMDD where CC represents the first two digits of the
calendar year
BAX10 is the date the last piece of equipment passed the reader.
Time expressed in 24-hour clock time as follows: HHMM, or HHMMSS, or HHMMSSD,
or HHMMSSDD, where H = hours (00-23), M = minutes (00-59), S = integer seconds
(00-59) and DD = decimal seconds; decimal seconds are expressed as follows: D =
tenths (0-9) and DD = hundredths (00-99)
C1110: If BAX-11 is present, then BAX-10 is required
BAX11 is the time the last piece of equipment passed the reader.
Code identifying the time. In accordance with International Standards
Organization standard 8601, time can be specified by a + or - and an indication
in hours in relation to Universal Time Coordinate (UTC) time; since + is a
restricted character, + and - are substituted by P and M in the codes that
follow
C1211: If BAX-12 is present, then BAX-11 is required
Codes (56)
Code identifying purpose of transaction set
Codes (76)
Code indicating the level of transportation service or the billing service
offered by the transportation carrier
Codes (85)