Free Learning Modules for Our Members

As a Bus Centre of Excellence Member, you get access to free and heavily discounted learning modules available on CIHT Learn platform. CIHT Learn is a digital learning platform, designed to help you progress your career by delivering the training and insights that you need, when you need them, your way.

As part of your BCoE membership, you can access the five key learning modules listed below for free

  • Introduction to Bus Transportation - A Beginner's Guide

  • Introduction to Bus Scheduling

  • Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

  • Stakeholder and Public Engagement

  • Understanding Disability

  • Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia

You can also purchase more training courses at 90% discount in bundles of 9 or 15 courses. See below for more details about these discounted courses.

You can access the CIHT Learn platform using the credentials you created when signing up for BCoE membership. If you have forgotten your credentials, simply reset your password or contact us at bcoe@ciht.org.uk.

NEW: Introduction to Bus Transportation - A Beginner's Guide

With a diverse and wide range of topics, the bus industry can be complicated for newcomers. This course aims to provide you with the building blocks to develop your knowledge and experience of the bus industry. It will introduce you to the benefits of buses, the different types of services and how they are managed as well as other useful information for anyone working in the industry. After completing this course, we hope you will feel confident developing your career in the bus sector.

Introduction to Bus Scheduling

  • This course introduces basic skills to help understand and develop bus timetables, driver schedules and how to construct timetables and schedules.

  • Help to gain an appreciation of potential inefficiencies and develop awareness of the legal framework relating to drivers’ hours

  • Audience: professionals involved in specifying bus services for local authorities, and those working for operators looking to expand their knowledge

  • No previous knowledge is needed 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Course

  • Review definitions of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

  • Explore the importance of being yourself at work.

  • Help you to recognise subtle discrimination and other non-inclusive behaviours.

  • Encourage you to think about what you can do to promote inclusion in your workplace.

Stakeholder and Public Engagement Course

  • The importance of engagement for successful project delivery.

  • Aware of legislative requirements and avoid challenges and delays.

  • Confident in your ability to plan engagement strategically including cost-effectively.

  • Skills and knowledge in a wide range of engagement techniques.

  • Manage risks.

Understanding Disability Course

  • The legal framework which requires accessibility to underpin all public works.

  • The concept of the social model of disability.

  • The concept of inclusive design.

  • How to use these concepts in your planning and implementation across all projects and day-to-day management.

Designing highways and transportation for people with dementia Course

  • Highlights the importance of considering dementia when designing, planning and building.

  • Improve your knowledge about dementia and challenge common assumptions.

  • Help you to understand the role you can play in making travel more inclusive - a crucial part of living independently.

  • Spark your curiosity about working with people with dementia to design and deliver differently in the future.

Free for Members

Five modules - Introduction to Bus Scheduling, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Stakeholder and Public Engagement, Understanding Disability and Designing for Highways and Transportation for People With Dementia.

9 Module Bundle £60

Communication Skills, Introduction to Coaching Techniques, Introduction to Mentoring, the Project Management Bundle, Professional Ethics, Risk Awareness, Safety Systems, Team Briefings, Transport Decarbonisation.

15 Module Bundle £90

Communication Skills, Highway Infrastructure Asset Management, Incident Management, Introduction to Coaching Techniques, Introduction to Green & Blue Infrastructure, Introduction to Mentoring, NEC Case Law, Preparing for a Professional Review, Professional Ethics, Project Management Bundle, Risk Awareness, Safety Systems, Sustainable Transport, Team Briefings, Transport Decarbonisation.