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Stop Areas

Public transit stations and stops can be modeled using a relation tagged with public_transport=stop_area. Description of such relations can be found from this OSM wiki page.

OpenTripPlanner detects such relations and applies some special logic to them. Nodes, which are linked to street network, and are located within platform areas, are interpreted as connection points from the street network to the platform. OTP automatically links such points with the platform geometry in order to improve walk routing.

For example, an elevator or stairs can connect a normal street to a railway platform above it. There is no need to add an explicit edge, which connects the entrance point with the actual geometry of the platform.

An example: Huopalahti railway station in Helsinki

Instructions

  • Add platforms, which need special linking, as members of a stop_area tagged relation
  • Set role=platform to these platform members
  • Platforms must be also proper areas, tagged as routable highways and area=yes. Also a single tag public_transport=platform will do.
  • Model required entrance points and stop linking points inside platform geometry and make them relation members, too.
  • Entrances can be tagged using railway=subway_entrance, highway=elevator, entrance=yes or entrance=main.
  • Stop linking points should be tagged as boarding locations, e.g. using the tag public_transport=platform.
  • Connect entrance points to the street network. Stop linking points can have reference tags to instruct how to link them with public transit stops as instructed in the document about boarding locations.
  • Platform and its entrance point must have the same level tag value. Also matching by default value zero is accepted.
  • If level tag is not set, layer tag is also considered