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RTSKG Ontology
RTSKG Ontology
The RTSKG ontology is the unified schema of the Rail Transit Station Knowledge Graph (RTSKG), a dataset that explicitly models the spatial and semantic interactions among different kinds of urban entities. It defines ten classes and nineteen relations.
Shutong Zhu
Tianxing Wu
Runfeng Liu
Yuang Gu
Xuan He
Yuan Zhu
Southeast University
2025-11
2026-06
This ontology is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
rtskg
https://w3id.org/rtskg/ontology/
poi_locates_at_station_area
Models the location relation between a POI and a station area.
poi_locates_at_block
Models the location relation between a POI and a block.
station_area_locates_at_borough
Models the location relation between a station area and a borough.
station_area_locates_at_functional_area
Models the location relation between a station area and a functional area.
block_locates_at_borough
Models the location relation between a block and a borough.
block_locates_at_functional_area
Models the location relation between a block and a functional area.
functional_area_locates_at_borough
Models the location relation between a functional area and a borough.
borough_is_adjacent_to_borough
Models the adjacency between two boroughs.
functional_area_is_adjacent_to_functional_area
Models the adjacency between two functional areas.
road_intersects_borough
Models the intersection between a road and a borough.
road_intersects_functional_area
Models the intersection between a road and a functional area.
road_intersects_station_area
Models the intersection between a road and a station area.
station_area_intersects_block
Models the intersection between a station area and a block.
station_area_intersects_station_area
Models the intersection between two station areas.
block_intersects_station_area
Models the intersection between a block and a station area.
station_area_belongs_to_station
Models the non-geographic relation in which a station area belongs to a station.
station_belongs_to_line
Models the non-geographic relation in which a station belongs to a rail transit line.
poi_has_poi_category
Models the non-geographic relation in which a POI has a POI category.
road_has_road_category
Models the non-geographic relation in which a road has a road category.
geometry
The geometry of a feature, encoded as an OGC Well-Known Text (WKT) literal in the WGS84 coordinate reference system.
walking_time_minutes
The walking time, in minutes, used to construct the station area as the region reachable from a station within this time (e.g., 5 or 10 minutes).
Borough
An administrative borough describing high-level administrative boundaries of a city.
Functional Area
A functional area representing the subdivision of a city according to its function (e.g., residential areas).
Station
The rail transit station, which serves as a transport hub for passengers to board or alight from the rail transit vehicles like subway train.
Rail Transit Station
Station Area
The region accessible from a rail transit station within a specified walking time.
Line
The rail transit line, which is a sequence of connected stations.
Rail Transit Line
Road
The road segment in a city.
Block
The urban block, which is a fine-grained spatial unit that constitutes the fundamental element of the physical structure of urban areas.
POI
A point of interest (POI), which represents the basic functional units in a city.
Point of Interest
POI Category
The category of a POI, which characterizes the function of the POI.
Point of Interest Category
Road Category
The category determined by the hierarchy or function of the road.