Bus Stop Locations and Attributes for Shawinigan Public Transit

Shawinigan, Quebec, provides a geospatial point layer detailing bus access stops managed by the Shawinigan Public Transport Board (RTCS). The dataset includes attributes such as address, street corner, bus shelter presence, and boarding number. It was published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec and was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Map bus stop density and distribution using the `address` and `coin_rue` (street corner) fields for network analysis.
• Analyze the availability of bus shelters across the network by filtering on the `Bus_shelter` attribute.
• Validate or enrich transit routing algorithms by integrating precise stop locations and `embarkation_no` (boarding number) identifiers.
• Assess pedestrian access to public transit by geocoding the `address` field relative to residential or commercial zones.

Strengths

• Data is provided as a geospatial point layer with specific attributes like address and shelter status.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license by a municipal government authority.
• Includes a unique `globalid` field for consistent record identification.

Limitations

• The total number of bus stop records (rows) is unknown, limiting assessment of coverage.
• Attribute descriptions are brief and were machine-translated, which may introduce ambiguity.
• Temporal coverage (e.g., operational date range for stops) is not specified.

Provenance

Source

Shawinigan Public Transport Board (RTCS), published via the Government and Municipalities of Québec on Open Canada.

Collection Method

Location data collected at the corresponding address.

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026, indicating planned maintenance.

Geography

City of Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada.