Data Terminology Catalogue
BOLD Capitalised is the Term being described in a standards context.
RED is used to highlight the common language used by the public.
BLOCK specifies information about the BLOCK (running board, vehicle working) of a journey. A block enables VEHICLE JOURNEY instances to be assigned to a group of journeys that will be carried out by the same vehicle during the course of an operational day.
The work of a vehicle from the time it leaves a PARKING POINT after parking (where the vehicle will stay unattended for a long time) until its next return to park at a PARKING POINT. Any subsequent departure from a PARKING POINT after parking marks the start of a new BLOCK
A LINE is a collection of VEHICLE JOURNEYs (trips) that share some high degree of commonality of ROUTE and timings, and which are all known by the same LINE NAME.
Examples are “1”, “1B”, “100”, “calverton connection”, etc.
In the UK this is generally known as a bus route, or bus service, though the definition of LINE does not include the times.
LINE NAME is the public facing name of a LINE.
A ROUTE is an ordered list of located POINTs defining one single path through the road network (or a variation of a service), a LINE may consist of one or more ROUTEs.
A SERVICE is a collection of LINEs that together make up a coherent set of vehicle journeys usually running over geographically similar routes although this isn’t a requirement. For example, consider a service “1/1A”, where line “1” operates “A to B direct” and line “1A” operates “A to B via C”, and together they make up the complete service between A and B.
This is a particular UK concept and is normally used in relation to the LINEs contained in an OTC registration.
In BODS a SERVICE is uniquely identified by the SERVICECODE element uniquely identifies the service. For registered services this shall be the registration reference as given when the service is registered with OTC.