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Geographical layout and breakdown of the Infrabel rail network according to the shortest route between two adjacent passenger stations on the passenger lines. This dataset also gives an estimate of the distance.

This dataset includes the geographical position of level crossings in service at intersections between public roads and the Infrabel network.

It means:

On the Infrabel network: not all level crossings are on Infrabel’s network. The level crossings of tourist lines, certain intersections in port areas, ... are managed by other parties.

Public level crossings: The level crossings in this list are located on public roads. You will not find crossings that can only be used by certain authorised persons.

Crossing the tracks by car, bicycle or on foot always involves a risk, as it is impossible for a train to brake quickly. The best way to avoid accidents at railway crossings is to remove physical crossings between the tracks and the road. That is why Infrabel wants to replace as many level crossings as possible by a bridge, tunnel, parallel track or cycle path.

Important note: this dataset does not mention the temporary desactivations of level crossings. Moreover, this list is currently updated quarterly. As Infrabel removes level crossings every year, it is possible that some crossings in this list have been removed in the meantime.

There are different types of signalling for level crossings, these categories are included in the dataset.

*Passive signalling: the cross is present but neither the light sign nor the barrier indicates the passage of a train.

*Active signalling: lights warns road users of the arrival of a train.

*Half barrier: the barrier system, located on both sides of the tracks, partially closes the roadway.

*Complete barrier: the barrier system, located on both sides of the railway tracks, completely closes the roadway.

https://opendata.infrabel.be/explore/dataset/geoow/table/

Four datasets give:

• The List and geographical position of the main tracks with a line number on the Infrabel network (e.g. L161).

• The Geographical position of all track segments: route of all track segments on the Infrabel network, not only the main tracks.

• The Kilometre markers on the network: positions of the kilometre markers located along the tracks.

• The Combination of kilometre markers and main tracks: indicates for which main track (and line) the kilometre marker is applicable.

Two datasets give for the Infrabel network

• The Railway line sections : Segmentation of the rail network according to the characteristics of the infrastructure and the possibilities of operation. This list includes the route and technical characteristics of the line sections. https://infrabel.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/lijnsecties

• Operational point of the railway network : Segmentation of the rail network according to the characteristics of the infrastructure and the possibilities of operation. This list includes the position but also the different official names of the operational points of the network and a classification.https://infrabel.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/operationele-punten-van-het-newterk

These data are also published in the European Register of Infrastructure (RINF)

Please note that these datasets are intended to allow schematic representations of the Belgian rail network (i.e. for a maximum scale of 1/25 000).

park and ride Brussels

Velopark.be is a digital platform that makes all information about bicycle parking facilities in the whole of Belgium available to everyone. All useful user information is centrally located in one place: www.velopark.be.

The platform is built on the principle of Linked Open Data, and all data is publicly available, both the fixed data about bicycle parking and the dynamic data (the occupancy, where available). The data can be requested by consulting the linked open data catalog or via a user-friendly API.

The dataset mentioned is a link to the JSON-LD (Linked Data) catalog. However, if you are not familiar working with this format, a 'basic' API has been created: https://velopark.ilabt.imec.be/api/docs/ - for example, if you want data on all bicycle parkings in Belgium: https://velopark.ilabt.imec.be/rich-snippets-generator/api/1000 A script was created to to fetch Velopark's parkings of a certain region (NIS code) into a CSV file: https://github.com/julianrojas87/velopark-dump

The vocabulary can be found here: https://velopark.ilabt.imec.be/openvelopark/vocabulary and on this Github repository: https://github.com/julianrojas87/openvelopark-vocabulary

We collect user feedback on trains trips in Belgium, and ask users to score their trains by occupancy: low, medium, high.