Better Bus Infrastructure Design – Interchanges

Course Overview

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This one-day course shows how to design bus interchanges and associated infrastructure avoiding the most common mistakes that recur in modern designs. These common mistakes may be minor, but frequently manifest themselves at critical times during construction or operation, resulting in challenging and costly remedial work during the final phases of the project.

Many of these design issues occur because the designers or those approving the design may lack specialist knowledge of the bus industry, including bus interchange requirements, vehicle manoeuvrability and transport operations.

The course includes practical examples of issues, video footage and case studies and explains how and why issues occur, how they frequently affect operations, and what mitigation is required.

By the end of the course, delegates will be able to recognise potential issues in bus infrastructure design, understand the implications of those issues, and propose practical alternatives.

Who should attend

This intermediate level course is ideal for anyone involved in the planning, development and delivery of bus interchanges, and associated bus infrastructure. This includes developers and urban planners, architectural consultants, highway designers and engineers, transport planners, transport consultants or those involved in town centre rejuvenation projects. It is ideal for teams from local councils, district councils, transport authorities, transport consultancies, urban developers and bus operators.

Course Objectives

The course combines theoretical concepts with practical examples of both good and bad designs, showing how money can be saved at all stages of the design and construction process.

On completion of the course delegates will be able to:

• Identify, mitigate against and challenge the common issues that affect good bus infrastructure design
• Gain insight into the road-space buses require and how they use it.
• Understand the various types of interchange, their advantages and disadvantages and how each aids or hinders operations
• Understand the purpose and operational advantages of layover areas, recovery time, alighting stops and driver facilities
• Understand the operational and psychological importance of ensuring good, well placed driver facilities;
• Select a bus station layout that best suits a network, its services and headways.
• Understand how good concourse design aids segregation of passengers and buses.
• Understand how safety audits integrate with the bus interchange project life cycle
• Understand what processes need to be completed and tested prior to opening and operational handover

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