Park & Rail (parking at the railway station)

Brief Description

This data feed contains static data from 500+ car parks with name, number of parking spaces, geographical coordinates, etc. of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and some other railways and public transport operators.

Park & Rail data visualized @ geojson.io

Functional Description

The data feed consists of a file of approx. 1200 KByte size which is retrieved daily from an SBB database (PRail). The data feed contains data for 500+ car parks with names, number of parking spaces, geographical coordinates, etc. from the following providers:

• AVA: Aargau Verkehr AG
• BLS AG
• RBS: Regionalbahn Bern-Solothurn
• SBB: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen AG (Swiss Federal Railways)
• SOB: Südostbahn
• zb: Zentralbahn

Technical Description

The files are JSON files encoded in UTF-8 and based on the GeoJSON standard (see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoJSON).

The data structure is a GeoJSON ‘FeatureCollection,’ which contains a list (array [ ]) of ‘features’ (the car parks).

Each feature (parking) mainly contains these fields:

• "id": a technical ID
• "geometry" a GeoJSON data structure for a point with the WGS 84 coordinates.
• "properties": Properties, including in particular
  • "displayName": the name of the car park
  • "operator": the operator/provider
  • "bookingSystem": Details of the booking system
  • "address": Street, address, postcode, town/city
  • "capacities": Details of the type and number of parking spaces.

The exact structure can be derived from this example or directly from the data feed:

{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "features": [
    {
      "type": "Feature",
      "id": "97433a48-0376-4e1c-9eca-98ab8d63cadb",
      "geometry": {
        "type": "Point",
        "coordinates": [
          8.595184,
          47.261599
        ]
      },
      "properties": {
        "displayName": "Horgen",
        "operator": "SBB",
        "bookingSystem": {
          "type": "NOVA",
          "id": "163"
        },
        "address": {
          "addressLine": "Bahnhofstrasse 1",
          "city": "Horgen",
          "postalCode": "8810"
        },
        "capacities": [
          {
            "categoryType": "STANDARD",
            "total": 44
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

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