Identification of Fixed Objects in Public Transport

Scope

• Stop Place Model: Describes the detailed structure of a Stop Place including Entrances, pathways, and accessibility limitations.
• Point of Interest Model: Describes the structure of a point of interest including physical points of access, i.e. Entrances.
• Gazetteer Topographical Model: Provides a topographical representation of the settlements between which people travel. It is used to associate Stop and Station elements with the appropriate topographic names and concepts to support the functions of journey planning, stop finding, etc.
• Administrative Model. Provides an organisational model for assigning responsibility to create and maintain data as a collaborative process involving distributed stakeholders. Includes namespace management to manage the decentralised issuing of unique identifiers.

  Stop Places

• It distinguishes all physical points of access to transport such as platforms, gates, quays, bays, stances, taxi ranks, and also other areas of an interchange such as booking halls, concourses, waiting rooms, etc.
• It describes the navigation paths between such points allowing the routing by journey planners.
• It can represent detailed accessibility data about access for wheelchair users, the visually impaired, and other categories of users with special needs, etc.
• It can also represent likely points of delay due to processes such as checkin, security, etc.
• Stop Places and their component elements can be assigned the names, labels and codes needed to identify them to the public in different contexts.
• Components can be associated with elements of other information layers such as the Road and Path Network to allow for integrated journey routing.

  History

• Between 2001 and 2012 a new more general Transmodel based schema NeTEx was developed which incorporated and extended the features of the IFOPT IFOPT schema as a uniform part of a data model for public transport stops and timetables.
• Starting in 2014 a program to update Transmodel was commenced and the IFOPT conceptual model was integrated into the Transmodel Part2