a POINT in a journey where PASSENGERs can board or alight from VEHICLES

NOTE SCHEDULED STOP POINT refines the primary Transmodel sense of a STOP POINT, which is that of the logical stop point within a scheduled journey, rather than a physical point in the infrastructure where boarding and alighting may take place, for which the terms for specific STOP PLACE COMPONENTS such as QUAY or BOARDING POSITION are used; although the same identifiers are often used for both SCHEDULED STOP POINT and STOP PLACE COMPONENT, a practice which provides significant benefits for data management, they nonetheless represent distinct concepts. A STOP POINT ASSIGNMENT is used to associate a SCHEDULED STOP POINT with a STOP PLACE COMPONENT.