Better Bus Infrastructure Design: Planning and Implementing Temporary Bus and Passenger Facilities during Redevelopment Works - Deltabus

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Better Bus Infrastructure Design – Planning and Implementing Temporary Bus and Passenger Facilities during Redevelopment Works

Course Overview

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Duration – 1 Day	Cost
	up to 6 delegates £220 each
Location – Client’s Venue	7 – 10 delegates £190 each
	10+ delegates £150 each
Please note: min booking of 5 delegates	Course delivery date: 3 month’s advanced notice.

This one day course focuses on the issues bus operators and councils face when third party demolition or construction works disrupt and divert bus routes. When temporary bus stops, stands and layover areas need to be planned and implemented, it’s important to get it right to ensure that services, driver and passenger facilities remain safe, efficient and retain patronage.

Whether they’re rejuvenating the town centre, extending the Railway station or building a new bus interchange, long term road works often isolate a group of prime town centre stops from the network. Diversions and restricted access will require temporary bus stops, stands and facilities to be planned and implemented. This course shows delegates the issues they will face when planning temporary infrastructure, how to reduce the consequences of disruption and shows ways in which building contractors and bus operators can work together to keep services moving.

Who should attend

This intermediate level course is ideal for anyone involved in the planning, development and delivery of bus stops, stands, 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 Content

The course begins by examining typical scenarios and issues that require temporary infrastructure. Most issues of poor bus stop design occur due to designers being unfamiliar with how buses manoeuvre, and not fully understanding the needs of the bus operators, drivers and passengers. A further module examines these areas in detail covering the road-space that buses require, standard bus stop design, street width design, requirements for recovery time and layover, drivers facilities, passenger facilities, and phased project planning. Having covered the theoretical basics, the course examines methods and techniques of implementing temporary stops, stands and facilities including service interlacing at existing stops, requesting TROs to assist buses access streets that they cannot normally use, bus tests, road and pavement alterations, pavement width considerations for pedestrians, and requesting assistance from developers for roads space, logistical inter-working with deliveries etc, providing or sharing facilities

Course Objectives

On completion of the course delegates will be able to:

Understand how buses use road-space, operators’ and drivers’ needs for layover areas, recovery time, driver facilities and basic guidelines for bus stop dimensions
Understand who to approach regarding TROs or changes to Rights of Way
Understand how the council or developer can assist with creating new routes and providing driver facilities and layover space
Understand how phased construction may require changes to temporary infrastructure
Understand the importance of passenger information, updates, plans and facilities

Course Modules

How construction affects bus networks	Explores the effects that various types of construction (road works and resurfacing, hoardings, road closures, demolition and construction, renovation or maintenance) can have on bus networks.
Basic guidelines for infrastructure	Revision period briefly describing guidelines for bus stops, layover and recovery areas, concourses, road widths and bus roadspace
Creating new paths for your routes	Explains methods of maintaining times, mileage and service reliability by creating new paths to reach bus bays, layovers etc.
Bus testing and street alterations	The importance of bus testing and determining whether street furniture needs moving, roads and pavements altering, signage, pavement widths at stops and parking suspensions
Safety 1– segregating buses from works traffic.	The types of works traffic – road workers, hoardings, construction traffic, demolition works and traffic, cranes, underground works and why segregation is required.
Safety 2 – segregating displaced passengers from buses	Siting of temporary stops in relation to junctions, traffic flows, bus movements, pedestrian crossings, pavement widths, other traffic.
Agreements and Acts	A guide to forming basic agreements between developer and bus operator, and the Acts that govern powers to alter road traffic conditions. Includes agreements for safety, noise, dust, working methods, working times, method statements, vehicle queuing, amendments to bus driver procedures, construction phases, costs. Planning acts, Highways acts, inc s50, s278, s104, s247 and s257.
Passenger facilities	Passenger flows (friction), seating, shelter, information, timetables, security, updates, directions
Driver facilities	How to create temporary driver facilities including renting, purchasing, hiring, developer assistance, access, maintenance of facilities, layover and recovery areas, site safety
Reversion of temporary arrangements	What needs to be achieved to relinquish special rights and TROs and return the area as it was before the works started.