Service Points of public transport Switzerland

A central directory of service points is required so that a timetable can be published. This directory is part of the system atlas and is operated as part of the customer information system leadership (SKI) on behalf of the Federal Office of Transport (FOT).

“Service Points” is a collective term for all entries in atlas. The following differentiations are used:

Services: All entries. Not all of them are relevant for the timetable publication.
Operating points: Services relevant to operations without a commercial mandate (e.g. junctions, depots, …)
Freight points: Services relevant to freight transport in terms of loading and unloading goods.
Stops: Passenger transport services in terms of boarding and alighting

There are also two versions of the traffic point element (trafficPoints):

Areas enables the grouping of several stop places (e.g. to form platforms) or even areas.
Stop places are places where a means of transport can be boarded (e.g. track)

As the system owner, SKI provides the system for data maintenance. The data owner and responsible for the correctness of the data are the respective transport companies, which are registered with the departments. Further information on atlas can be found here.

The data is made available to all interested parties in the sense of open data as follows:

Service Points

As a file

All data is fully versioned, i.e. it is important that you obtain the correct data set for your own requirements:

actual_date:	Daily updated status of the service points. There is one entry per service point.
future_timetable:	Status of the service points on the first day of the upcoming timetable (timetable change). There is one entry per service point.
full:	All versions of a service point.

=> Description of the published data

As API

The data can also be obtained via API: https://developer.sbb.ch/apis/atlas/information

Areas and stopping points (trafficPoints)

All data is fully versioned, i.e. it is important to use the correct data set for the data reference:

actual_date:	Current status of the traffic point elements. There is one entry per traffic point element.
future_timetable:	Status of the transport point elements on the first day of the upcoming timetable (timetable change). There is one entry per traffic point element.
full:	All versions of a traffic point element.

=> Description of the published data

As API

The data can also be obtained via API: https://developer.sbb.ch/apis/atlas/information