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).