About Stiemer

Latest version: 1.0
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Welcome to the home of the Stiemer dataset, (hopefully) thé future reference for academic research and simulations pertaining to train mobility.

Features

• More than six years of itinerary info and data, containing:
  • Travel day
  • Train line
  • Scheduled checkpoints & stations
  • Actually visited checkpoints & stations
  • Scheduled timetables
  • Scheduled platform information
• On average more than three thousand passenger train itineraries, per day
• Accurate measurements with precision up to the second
• A free cultural work, available under the ODbL v1.0 licence
• Sourced from one of the densest railway networks in the world
• List of large calamities, provided by Infrabel
• Comes with a trilingual PoI list, containing all Belgian stations and even more beyond its borders:
  • Names in Dutch, French and German
  • Latitude and longitude coordinates
  • Type of checkpoint (station, stop in open track, ...)
• A geodesic graph of the railway network, courtesy of OpenStreetMap:
  • Lateral and longitudal location of each railway track in operation
  • Station locations and platform numbers
  • Speed limits
  • Catenary voltages, if applicable
  • Switches and connections represented by nodes

All these features have been carefully sourced and are ready to use, delivered using CSV files, making them easy to parse and easy to understand.

Academic paper

This dataset was submitted for peer review at the 6th Interdisciplinary Data Science Conference at Salzburg, Austria. As of writing, this paper is not officially published yet, and thus cannot be displayed here. After official publication, a link to the paper will be provided here.