How important is it for list items to have a title?

My company is bidding in a government tender for providing urban bicycle rental facilities in a few cities. As part of the system, we want to illustrate some screens and one of the screens is a list view.

Assuming we are going to have hundreds of docking stations, there wasn't a plan to hand-pick names for each one of them.

From the user side, how critical is it to have a name for each station displayed in the list (as opposed to the station number for example)?

To make sure this is not opinion-based, any reference to studies would be highly welcome.