Description
Stop areas permit to represent the crossing points and spots that are served by a transport offer.
There are 4 Types of stop areas:
Groupe of Stop Places (GSP) It is a place with national or international visibility (cities, stations, airports etc). It includes places with shared characteristics. Potentially, it is multi-modal, multi-line, multi operator Examples: Angers, Orly airport (Orly Ouest together with Orly Sud), all the stations of Paris
Stop Places (SP) It is a place including one or more spots where vehicles can stop in order to load and unload passengers and where travelers can wait for the vehicles or planning their trip. Potentially, it is multi-modal, , multi-line, multi operator and can have one or several mono-modal stop places. Example: Paris Montparnasse
Multimodal Stop Place (MSP) An area that is able to include boarding and access areas with common features. Potentially, it is multimodal, multi-line, multi operator Example: Paris Montparnasse station
Quay (Q) It is a specific place, such as a platform, a waiting, drop-off or pick-up area in which the traveler can wait, enter and exit vehicles in one direction. It is multi-modal, multi-line, multi operator Example: Paris Montparnasse station, platform n8
Consult the Stop Areas
You can see the stop areas created in “Stop Area Referential” of each Workgroup.
For each stop area, ID, Name, Registration number, Status, Zip code, City, Area type are displayed.
From the Stop area list, you can filter the content in different ways:
Their name
Zip code
City
Area type
Status
Managing Stop areas
For each Stop area the star wheel of every Stop area allows to launch the accessible actions (see, edit stop area).
To create a new area you should fill in the template with all necessary information and to submit them. There is a possibility to have the Name of a Stop area in different languages. To add the Name in another language, fill in the field with corresponding flag.
You have to choose the Category for your stop area: “commercial” or “non-commercial”. The commercial category is chosen by default.
Also you have a possibility to define the Type of stop area. The “Quay” area type is chosen by default.
Once the Type is defined, it can’t be possible to change it by edition.
You can choose the Parent for your stop area from the drop list, writing down the name or the code of the stop area you want to be the Parent.
The Parent that you choose for your Stop area must have the Type area higher than the Type of the stop area that you create.
At the creation the Stop area has Status “In creation” by default.
The Status can be changed at creation and at edition of Stop area. If a stop area becomes useless, you can deactivate it.
In Location section you have to put in the coordinates of your stop place.
In General section you can indicate whether your stop area is equipped with escalator, lift and suitable for mobility reduced passengers.
Stop Area Routing Constraints
Routing Constraint Zone (RCZ) managed by Chouette allows to represent the specificities of offer associated to a like and route. Some restrictions based on the distance between the stop areas for example, are not easy to manage by this function.
Stop Area Routing Constraints (SARC) allow you to describe in stop area referential, that the passengers are “never” able to get on at the stop area A and get out at stop area B, no matter the line or route.
A constraint covers 2 stop areas. You can choose a commercial stop area of any type, not only the Quays, or if the both stop areas are forbidden in both ways or not.
A constraint between 2 stop areas is equivalent to the Routing Constraint Zones on all the routes passing by the two stop areas. The both stop areas can be not consequent in route, the restriction will be still valid.
Examples:
with a constraint between A and B, on a route A, B, C, boarding on A prohibit the unboarding on B.
with a constraint between A and C, on a route A, B, C, boarding on A prohibit the unboarding on C.
When a constraint covers a stop area that has child stop areas (as GSP, SP, MSP), all the child stop areas are included in restriction.
You can see the list of Stop Area Routing Constraints in Stop area referential.
For each SARC the star wheel allows to launch the accessible actions (see, edit, destroy).
Stop Area Routing Constraints ca be filtered by:
stop area (filter is applied in both columns; for example, the search for “Nancy” will give the both lines that include Nancy, in first and second stop area)
direction (both ways/one way)
You can create a new Stop Area Routing Constraint by click on “Add”.
You choose two stop areas where you want to forbid the traffic. If you choose “Yes” for the option “Both ways”, the restriction will be applied for both ways.