Webinar: Designing and positioning bus stops for more efficient operation

This webinar took place on Monday 17 November

This webinar covered 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.

Speaker:
Chris Lee
Owner and Transport Specialist, Delta Bus Consultancy
Chris Lee has over 30 years experience in observing, analysing, and helping to enhance the bus industry, and over 15 years experience in Project Management. He was the Project Management Team Leader for TfL’s bus infrastructure portfolio managing the design and maintenance of 50 bus stations and 150 bus stands.