Design volumes at stations and stops of public transports (VSS1998/187)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Stops are interfaces between public transport and foot traffic. Whilst space requirements for means of public transport are clearly defined owing to vehicle measurements and manoeuvrability, space requirements for people using the stops are often only defined due to situational examinations or as the result of external compulsion. There are no general guidelines for the dimensioning of facilities on the pedestrian side of the stop.
It is now necessary to determine appropriate bases for dimensioning to ensure an efficient, attractive space-saving and, from the point of view of space, satisfactory arrangement of stops within public transport.
Objectives:
The aim of the research assignment is the elaboration of a standard containing a directive on the pedestrian side sizing of stops of public transport. This involves setting the decisive movement and the dimension of land capitalization (minimum standards and to aspire to standards) as a function of parameters (eg. amount of traffic, traffic safety, comfort, passenger exchange times, stops type).
These instructions should be given to the planning process, allowing the inclusion of situational peculiarities in the sizing process and in particular on the dependencies in design matters (stops furnishing, passenger information, safety fences, splash protection, etc.) to draw attention.
The proposals will be examined at least six different in disposition, location and local transport case studies on their functional ability towards.
Methodology:
To enable efficient processing of the research assignment or the draft standard, the system description is consolidated at the start of processing and formulated the structure / frame of the norm. These two documents are updated as work progresses. To determine the dimensions of sizes, a model is developed, which is calibrated to specific case studies.
The following served as the bases of suggestions for dimensioning
- literature research of legal and technical norms, guidelines, research reports, specialized articles and other specialized literature on three subject areas: stops (geometry, disposition); foot traffic (characteristics, space requirements and methods of dimensioning); facilities for the disabled (bases of dimensioning, equipment, disposition).
- Survey among Swiss and European haulage companies and institutions (town planning authorities or civil engineering authorities of larger towns). On the whole, about 100 institutions were approached in the German and French speaking areas nationally and abroad about the following information: special guidelines for the planning of stops; provision of guidelines or literature; practical examples of well-functioning or ill-functioning stops at roads.
- Video recordings to verify common ideas about passenger behaviour at the stop and the guidelines for space requirements of pedestrians in Berne at the Station stop of line 10, Köniz-bound.
- Test drives with vehicles for the disabled.
- Simulation of curve driving with vehicles for the disabled with auto-turn.
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