This webinar covers some of the material in the current PTRC ‘Designing for Buses in the Urban Environment’ course plus new video material from recent projects.
Why so many bus stops are inefficient
Why they need to be more efficient
Theoretical and practical bus stop lengths
The road space buses need to pull around another bus
How kerbside stops get converted to layby stops
Boarding issues that increase dwell time and lose patronage.
The 5 phases of stopping at a bus stop
Examples of how inefficient stops affect those phases
Theoretical example showing how inefficient stops waste time and money.