Do not split links at stop locations

[datarttu]

I have found out that network links should probably not be split at transit stop locations, because

• it makes the network more scattered by producing short links and more links in general;
• HFP points are projected to links, not to stop points, and stop event related HFP points can (randomly) end up on a link on either side of the stop point;
• we currently have to manipulate stop point geometries by shifting and clustering them, in order to avoid making too short links, which is not a very good practice.

Instead of the current model, we could determine that a link can only be set between intersection nodes.
Or, if we require an "enriched" network model that includes street names, for instance, links could be split by nodes wherever these attributes change.