Sponsored by ASCE'sTransportation and Development Institute and ASCE Continuing Education.

Purpose and Background

Providing bus services on the existing street network is becoming an increasing challenging aspect of transportation engineering. The materials in this webinar provide the current information available on designing better bus transit street facilities and lots of examples from the United States as well as Europe. Technical publications will be discussed which cover specific aspects such as bus stops and bus transit service with other forms of transportation such as bicyclists and light rail.

This webinar presents a summary of the application of transit facility treatments as well as bus rapid transit operations and interfacing with street traffic operations. The webinar also discusses information on the applicability of roadway segment priority treatments, including transit ways, exclusive lanes, and bus stop consolidation/relocation, and intersection treatments such as transit signal priority, queue jump signals and bus bulbouts/boarding islands. It also discusses the placement of bus stops and how they can affect ridership as well as impacts to all road users.

Primary Topics of Discussion

• Bus transit preferential treatments in mixed traffic
• On-street bus stops design and placement
• Integrating bicycling and public transport
• Issues with providing bus services on residential streets
• Interfacing bus service with private development projects
• Passenger safety at midblock bus stops

Learning Outcomes

Upon Completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe various configurations of on-street bus transit facilities
• Identify how bus transit elements impact mixed traffic flow
• Identify the impact of bus transit street facilities on urban development
• Recognize what factors lead to successful bus rapid transit projects and systems

Webinar Benefits

• Understand various design considerations when developing bus transit facilities
• Become familiar with on street bus transit service impacts on traffic operations
• Improved understanding NACTO’s Urban Street Design Guide’s perspectives
• Know how to apply the various design resources and their limitations

Assessment of Learning Outcomes

Students' achievement of the learning outcomes will be assessed via a short post-assessment (true-false, multiple choice and fill in the blank questions).

Intended Audience

• Transportation engineers/planners
• Community leaders
• Government officials

Webinar Outline

• Interfacing bus services with other forms of transportation
• Exclusive lanes and contraflow bus lanes
• Bus stop placement/consolidation/relocation
• Intersection treatments - transit signal priority, queue jump signal/bypass lanes
• Curb extensions/boarding islands/shelters
• Shared bike/bus lanes
• Grade separated bus facilities and impacts of interchange designs
• Street geometry for accommodating bus transit services and other road users
• On demand bus stop technology on fixed route systems
• Mobile apps/Wifi for bus transit services.
• Clean energy sources to comply with stringent environmental rules.
• Buses using energy recovery systems through breaks and stops.
• Bus data collection about routes, use of drop offs/boardings at specific locations to optimize use of vehicles, routes and people demands
• Bus Type, its specification and choice for the bus based public transport system

How to Earn your CEUs/PDHs and Receive Your Certificate of Completion

To receive your certificate of completion, you will need to complete a short on-line post-test and receive a passing score of 70% or higher within 1 year of purchasing the course.

How do I convert CEUs to PDHs?

1.0 CEU = 10 PDHs [Example: 0.1 CEU = 1 PDH]