The Swedish Stop Registry
Several regional public transportation authorities are planning to procure new planning systems. A national coordination of bus stop data, facilitated by the Swedish bus stop register, would streamline the management of bus stops at a national level and reduce costs for transportation operators.
Read Samtrafiken's White Paper about The Swedish Stop Registry here
Summary of White Paper about The Swedish stop registry
As several Public Transport Authorities (PTAs) are preparing procurements for new planning systems, we want to highlight the possibilities for national coordination of stop data in a national stop register and the benefits it would provide for travel throughout Sweden.
For a long time, the question of stop data has been a local issue for each region. This has made it challenging to manage stops at a national due to the lack of coordination of identities, etc. As the handling of traffic data becomes increasingly digitised and thus connected, new challenges arise.
Through its mandate to collect all traffic data in Sweden, Samtrafiken has created a national database for public transport stops and station areas. Here, they solve problems such as the same stop having different identification numbers in different systems and several different stops having the same identification number in different systems. This is achieved by assigning each bus stop in the entire country a unique, national identification number, while also storing data from various local systems connected to these stops.
To reduce unnecessary costs for managing various data about Sweden's stops both locally and nationally, the industry would benefit from utilising the new opportunity provided by the Swedish Stop Register (SHR) and gradually transitioning to allowing SHR to be the primary source for stop data and using this data in their own systems. Samtrafiken is actively working to develop SHR's capabilities to be a reliable source that serves the industry, thereby facilitating climate-smart travel in Sweden.