RailLine

Pattern

This class has been associated with the following pattern:

Pattern:Transportation Infrastructure Pattern

Subclass Of

InfrastructureElement

Description

An English description of the definition (what distinguishes this sense of the term?).

A Rail Line is a type of Infrastructure Element. It describes a part of the physical transportation infrastructure that has been fitted with tracks in order to allow travel by trains and other sorts of rail vehicles. No distinction is made between types of rail at this level. A Rail Line is identified as such by some governing body. It has some location and name. It may be decomposed into parts as Rail Line Segments.

Required by Use Case(s)

(why is this specialized definition needed?)

CDM References

What other classes or properties reference this term?

• Pattern:Transportation Infrastructure Pattern ‎ (← links)

Interface Specification References

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Status

Pending Approval

Annotations

Annotation	Value

Manchester Syntax Specification

Property	Restriction	Value
HasLocation	only	Feature
HasName	only	xsd:string
HasProperPart	only	RailLineSegment

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