Intermodal passenger transport hubs in public transport include bus stations, railway stations and metro stations , while a major transport hub, often multimodal (bus and rail), may be referred to in American English as a transport center or transit center . [ 2 ] Sections of city streets that are devoted to functioning as transit hubs are referred to as transit malls .
Modern electronic passenger information systems and journey planners require a digital representation of the stops and transportation hubs including their topology . Public transport data information standards such as Transmodel and IFOPT have been developed to provide a common terminology, conceptual models and data exchange formats to allow the collection and distribution of stop and interchange data.