[openrailwaymap] Station importance

[Michael Reichert]

Hi,

Am 03.03.2016 um 22:43 schrieb Alexander Matheisen:
> * importance=international:
>   * Location and served areas: located in big cities (often capitals),
> an important node in the international and national long-distance
> traffic network, is a central node of the public transport network of
> large region
>   * Traffic: highspeed trains, long-distance trains, night trains,
> regional trains, commuter trains
>   * Examples: Frankfurt (Main), Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Salzburg
> 
> * importance=national:
>   * Location and served areas: located in cities with national
> importance, important for interchanging between long-distance and
> regional trains, used for interchanging between long-distance trains
> that connect different parts of a country, important node of the
> regional public transport network
>   * Traffic: (mostly national) long-distance trains, regional trains,
> commuter trains
>   * Examples: Mainz, Mannheim, Bonn, Freiburg (Breisgau), Magdeburg
> 
> * importance=regional:
>   * Location and served areas: located in cities and larger towns with
> regional importance, important for interchanging between regional
> trains, important node of the regional public transport network
>   * Traffic: regional trains, commuter trains
>   * Examples: Düren, Euskirchen, Lienz
> 
> * importance=urban:
>   * Location and served areas: located in towns and larger villages
> with local importance, used for connecting these places to larger
> cities, important node of the local public transport network, used for
> interchanging between local public transport routes
>   * Traffic: regional trains stopping only in important stations
> (Regionalexpress in Germany), regional and commuter trains (S- und
> Regionalbahnen in Germany)
>   * Examples: Remagen, Andernach, Dormagen, Wernigerode
> 
> * importance=suburban:
>   * Location and served areas: located in suburbs of metropolitan
> areas, connecting suburbs and bigger light rail and tram stations
>   * Traffic: commuter trains (S-Bahnen in Germany), light rails (U-
> oder Stadtbahnen in Germany)
>   * Examples: Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt, Köln Hansaring
> 
> * importance=local:
>   * Location and served areas: typically located in rural areas,
> hamlets, villages
>   * Traffic: regional trains stopping at every station (Regionalbahnen
> in Germany)
>   * Examples: Satzvey, Dalheim, Brocken, Drei Annen-Hohne

I would add two additional categories:

* importance=low:
  * Location and served areas: small stops where most trains (even local
trains) do not stop apart form a few "alibi trains" [1] (usually in the
early morning and/or late evening)
  * Traffic: few regional trains stopping at every station
  * Examples: Rosenberg (Baden), Rammingen (Württemberg), Unadingen


* importance=sometimes
  * Location and served areas: stops which are either only served by
irregular running historic trains on preserved lines or only on special
(large) events
  * Traffic: only historic trains / anything between two trains per day
and multiple per minute
  * Examples: Gerstetten (?), Welzheim

Best regards

Michael


[1] Usually two trains (one per direction) which only run to serve an
obligation of service (national railway companies are sometimes force to
serve a line althought the do not really want it).


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