Hi,
Hint: you may get more qualified feedback if you use the talk-transit@
mailing list. This tagging@ list is a generalist mailing list intended
to gather people with a passion to write mails.
One thing we could investigate is some sort of indication whether a bus
or train route tagged in OSM is frequent, infrequent, or rarely used -
but we'd have to find a classifier for this that is vague enough to not
change twice a year, and precise enough to still be useful (and e.g.
draw "infrequent" lines with a dashed color on a public transport map or
so).
A thing that would work in at least the Netherlands, Belgium,
Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France, Great Britain, Denmark, Sweden,
parts of the US (and probably numerous other countries I never have
visitied): Mark route reations with
opening_hours=...
for the operation times
service_pattern=dense
for at least 6 services per hour on workdays from typical local
breakfast time to one hour after typical local dinner time,
3 services per hour on saturdays, sundays, and bank holidays
service_pattern=clock_face
if the service is subject to clock face scheduling
service_pattern=all_day
if there is at least about one service per hour all over the day
(again berakfast to after dinner)
service_pattern=special
if the service has limited operation times (school buses, peak hour
services, stadium extra service, night buses, and so on)
interval=...
as it exists. It is unfortunately ambiguous whether peak interval or
longest interval is indicated, but people may like to continue
information here
Using pairs of
opening_hours:evening=...
service_pattern:evening=...
or
opening_hours:evening=...
interval:evening=...
with this or other suffixes can be given as advice for people who want
to refine the information further.
Note that this information is usually stable for decades: It derives
from the number of rolling stock divided per travel time. Lifetime of
rolling stock is typically between 15 years (buses with internal
combustion engines) and 25 to 50 years (trainsets), and 1:1 replacements
are also quite common.
The rationale for breakfast to one hour after dinner is that both
business and touristical activity take place within that time window.
People outside that time window will know how and where to get better
adapted and more precise information.
Bye
Roland
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