Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines/Task force Transportation

Welcome to the Philippine Transportation Task Force of Tambayan Philippines.

Scope
The Transportation Task Force is dedicated to expanding the coverage of transportation-related topics on Wikipedia specific to the Philippines. This includes creating and improving articles on Philippine transportation infrastructure, such as roads, railways, terminals, bus lines, airports, and seaports, It also covers write-ups on developments and current projects in the transportation sector.

Participants

 * 1)  – a graduate of BS Civil Engineering with Specialization in Transportation Engineering
 * 1)  – a graduate of BS Civil Engineering with Specialization in Transportation Engineering
 * 1)  – a graduate of BS Civil Engineering with Specialization in Transportation Engineering

To-do items for members of Philippine transportation task force

 * Tag related transportation articles.
 * Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
 * Identify articles for creation.
 * Identify articles for improvement.
 * Review importance and quality of existing articles.

To-do items for anyone
 Add new items

Tagging and assessment
Any articles that are within the scope of this project should be tagged with the project banners of Tambayan Philippines.

Project templates
For main project templates, see the main project page for Tambayan Philippines.

Userbox template
Use the code below to display the userbox on your user page.

Article guidelines
The guidelines stated in this section are expected to be followed within articles related to Philippine transportation.

Structure
Below is the suggested structure for railway station articles:

Station naming
Article titles of train stations must be in the format of [Name] station. Parenthetical disambiguation where required may be added, with preference in the following order:
 * 1) Transit type (e.g., LRT, MRT)
 * 2) Line name (e.g., LRT Line 1, MRT Line 7)
 * 3) Geographic area (e.g., Manila, Metro Manila)

Units of measurement
A comprehensive set of guidelines based on MOS:UNIT, MOS:PH, and PD No. 187, s. 1973 is provided for consistent unit measurements in Philippine transportation articles.
 * The primary units to be used in articles are SI (metric) units.
 * Conversions to imperial units (e.g., miles, feet) may be provided where necessary. Use the template  value SI unit  to convert. For example, to convert 18.584 km to mi, use 18.584 km.
 * Use up to three decimal places for metric measurements.
 * Conversions to non-metric measurements must use decimals up to three places for consistency.

Station article template
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Stations#Article template example.

Railway stations
Railway station articles must begin with an infobox, with its example for Sacred Heart station shown below:

Stub templates

 * Example

RouteBox and RINT templates
When denoting a connection of transfer to a specific stop along another transportation system as part of stops tables or nearby transportaion modes for articles about stops or places, use a generic   icon corresponding to its mode of transport (see the list below), followed by a RouteBox or Rail-interchange template for its official classifications, and the official name of the stop.

For stops along a bus route, use  templates to indicate the bus route classification, route color as indicated in the article on the list of bus routes in Metro Manila, and the official name of the stop.

For railway transfers, use the localized   templates provided at Template:Rail-interchange/doc/PH. Note that a formatter for railway station names is also provided at Template:Station/doc.

For consistency, use the following generic icons for its corresponding mode of transport:
 *   for bus rapid transit systems
 *   for bus routes
 *   for MRT, LRT, and other rapid transit systems
 *   for the PNR Metro Commuter Line
 * undefined PasigRiverFerryServiceLogo.png  undefined PasigRiverFerryServiceLogo.png </tt> for the Pasig River Ferry Service
 * <tt> </tt> for other ferry systems

Unless specified, public transportation connections are considered to be part of official routes designated by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board.

Examples:
 * North Avenue
 * GMA-Kamuning
 * BGC Bus Logo.svg One Bonifacio High Street
 * QuezonCityBusService.png Katipunan
 * Araneta Center-Cubao
 * EDSA
 * undefined PasigRiverFerryServiceLogo.png Guadalupe Ferry Station
 * Santa Ana Ferry Station

As an additional note, for RouteBox templates that does not automatically link to the Wikipedia article of the transport system, you may use the link parameter to provide a wikilink to its respective article, as shown in the example below:

<tt> </tt>

Line colors
The table below shows the official colors assigned by the Department of Transportation, as listed on the second version of the Unified Color Palette Standard Guidelines for the Railways Sector.

Unassigned colors
Below are the colors that have not yet been assigned to any line. Colors in a higher set are prioritized for assignment.

Stations/Stops table template
Articles on notable transportation systems such as buses, railways, and ferry systems may use a table that lists all of its officially designated stops, the distance between stops, direct and indirect transfers to other transportation services, and the highly urbanized cities and/or independent component cities (HUCICCs) and province that it is located in.

Header and footer
A skeletal template of the table with the header and footer is provided below:

Station names
In the Name column, stops that are proposed, under construction, or not operational should be denoted with italics. The official name of the stop as indicated by official maps or signage should be used here.

Distance between stations
In the Distance columns for between stops and between terminuses, distances should be provided in kilometers, up to the third decimal place. Note that if there are no reliable sources on the distances between stops, this column may be omitted.

Transfers
In the Transfers column, any nearby transportation services or terminals that are directly or indirectly connected to the given stop may be listed here.

Use the guidelines from the RouteBox and RINT templates section above when denoting transfers. For readability, you may either place em-dashes (—) or use collapsible lists to separate different modes of transport or connecting terminals in each row of the column.

It is suggested to arrange these sections in order from highest to lowest transport capacity. For consistency, the header should be named after the system name (e.g. Manila MRT, Manila LRT, Philippine National Railways) or the owner of the system (e.g. BGC Bus), whichever is more appropriate. The header should also link to its Wikipedia article, if there is one.


 * 1) Long-distance railways (PNR, NSCR, etc)
 * 2) Rapid transit (LRTs, MRTs, BRTs, etc)
 * 3) Bus services
 * 4) Airport, seaports, landports, and ferry services
 * 5) Other modes of transport or terminals

Official data on UX Express, jeepney, and tricycle routes are not reliable and as such, connections to their routes or "stops" should not be included until a reliable source is available. However, you may indicate any transfers to their terminals, if notable.

Templates
This template uses em dashes to distinguish between different transport modes.

On the other hand, a template for collapsible lists, which allows the list to be collapsed and organized more neatly, is provided below:

Examples
Using the template, we can generate a list of transfers for multiple transport modes and even multiple stops under each one. This example shows a station that connects to: (1) a MRT station with two lines (2) a BRT stop with one line, and (3) a bus stop with 3 routes. The first table below shows the example scenario using the em dash layout:

On the other hand, this one is how it would be done using the collapsible lists layout:

Note that the em dash layout does not require the name or owner of the system as it is much simpler in nature. This is what both of them would look like in a wikitable:

Location
If the route is entirely located within one HUCICC, the Location column may be omitted. However, if it passes through two or more HUCICCs, the Location column should be used to denote which stops fall under which areas. For routes that pass through two or more provinces, indicate the province as well, separated by a comma.

Boundary crossings between HUCICCs and provinces may be denoted instead if the stop is located at the boundary of these two areas.

Examples:
 * Manila
 * San Pedro, Laguna
 * Mandaluyong–Makati boundary