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Also, national or regional data might be more complete.

If you can speak enough German to navigate the download, you can e.g. find geodata of all bus stops in Zurich at https://maps.zh.ch/?topic=ZVVZH&showtab=ogddownload (they will only deliver to email addresses, so I cannot link the actual data here).

Zürich Tram and Bus distance (beeline) between stops of trips:

Mean 199m

Median 172m

Min 14m (Zürich, Central <-> Zürich, Central Polybahn)

Max 678m (Pfäffikon SZ, Bahnhof <-> Pfäffikon SZ, Schiffstation)

According to a dataset of 1744 trips from https://data.stadt-zuerich.ch/dataset/vbz_fahrplandaten_gtfs

Really cool, and thanks for finding a much more accessible data set than I managed to!

For people non-familiar with Switzerland, though, it needs pointing out that Pfäffikon SZ is no longer in Zurich city nor Zurich state, but Schwyz (thus the SZ). It still comes up in that data set since it is served by ZVV, the Zurich transport authority. It would also be great to know how you group stops together as "the same stop, just different parts of it". I.e. Central vs. Central Polybahn - I would say these are actually colocated, just served by different lines (tram vs. furnicular).

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