Public transport planning or transit planning is the professional discipline responsible for developing public transport systems

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PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
PLANNING

2. BUS TRANSIT MODE
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3. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
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Flexibility: ability to operate on most streets in mixed mode
• Low investment cost: minimum infrastructure, quick introduction, and
easy changes/extension Limited
• Capacity: ideally suited for lightly to moderately travelled transit routes
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4. VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS
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Operation cost: cost per capacity decrease as vehicle size
increases
• Line capacity: increases with vehicle size
• Manoeuvrability: decreases with vehicle size riding
• Comfort: increases with vehicle size for std. bus
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5. BUS TYPE
Type Vehicle Length (meters) Capacity (customers)
Minibus 9 60
Bus 12 90
Articulated 18 150
Bi-Articulated 25 220
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Articulated Bi-Articulated

7. OPERATION IN MIXED TRAFFIC
Bus operation in urban street require least investment
The average speed of buses are lower than others
Equal treatment of transit and other vehicle is illogical, often result in high travel
cost to all
Purpose of transportation is to move people/goods and not vehicles
This lead to preferential treatment
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8. PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT
Preferential treatment assume equal rights to persons and not
vehicles
It increases travel speed, increased reliability
Bus preferential treatment is the basic prerequisite for improving bus
competitiveness
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9. PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT: ON STREETS
Reserved bus lane
Exclusive bus lane
Contra flow bus lane
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10. PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT: AT INTERSECTIONS
Signal design considerations
 Person delay other than vehicular
delay
Exclusive signal phase for bus
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11. PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT: ON FREEWAYS
HOV lanes
Exclusive bus lanes
Preferential entry to freeway
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12. SERVICE QUALITY
Reliability in terms of high frequency and adherence to the schedule
Riding comfort
Safety
Area coverage(route-km/km2)
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13. RAIL TRANSIT MODES
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14. RAIL TRANSIT CHARACTERISTICS
high riding quality, high passenger attraction & impact on cities
Rail technology: conical wheel and flange results in simple, safe and fast,
low rolling resistance , at-grade crossing, least affected by weather
Exclusive right of way – cat . A
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15. RAIL MODE TYPES
Street car (SCR)
Light rail transit (LRT)
Rapid rail transit (RRT)
Regional rail (RGR)
Mono rail
Sky bus
This classification based on R/W, no of cars, power pick up, vehicle control, max
speed and technology
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16. STREET CAR (SCR)16

17. LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT (LRT)17

18. RAPID RAIL TRANSIT (RRT)18

19. SKY BUS19

20. COMPARISON OF MODES20

21. COMPARISON OF MODES21

22. TRANSIT SYSTEM
CHARACTERISTICS
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23. TRANSIT SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS
• Service frequency (f): no of transit departure per hour
• Operation speed (Vo): Speed of travel experienced by passenger
• Reliability: % of vehicle arrival with less than a fixed time duration
• Safety: no of accidents per million km
• Line capacity (C): maximum no of persons a transit system can carry during one
hour
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24. TRANSIT SYSTEM CHARACTERISTICS
• Product capacity (Pc): product of operating speed and capacities of the line
(Vo x C)
• Productivity: the quality of output per unit of resources (vehicle-km)
• Utilization: no of persons use a transit per km (person-km/space-km)
• Other: level-of-service, service quality, fare
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25. TRANSIT SYSTEM
PERFORMANCE
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26. QUANTITATIVE PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTES
Basic attributes: speed, density, frequency
Work: no. of. Objects transported x distance
Productive capacity: product of its capacity and operation speed
(space-km/h2)
Efficiency ratio = output produced/resource consumed
Consumption rate = resource needed/ output produced
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27. ROUTE PATTERN
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TRUNK AND FEEDER SYSTEM
Suitable for cities that have evolved linearly along a major corridor and
the activity centres are spread parallel to the corridor.

33. INTEGRATED SYSTEM
The instruments of coordination include
 Route network coordination
Easy to use inter-modal transfer sites
The sale of through tickets and inter-modal passes (travel
cards)Use of one service to feed another service
Avoidance of duplication by parallel services
Use of advanced information and communication services to
allow faster decisions in planning, tracking and auditing
inter-modal moves
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34. THANK YOU
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