This document discusses the role of buses in achieving the UITP's goal of doubling the market share of public transportation by 2025. It recommends that cities prioritize public transportation over private vehicles by dedicating more road space to buses. Ensuring stable funding, rationalizing bus routes, and converting some bus lanes to BRT systems can help improve bus performance. Private sector involvement through PPPs and competitive tendering can attract new passengers if regulations ensure service quality. Fares must adjust to changing conditions, and social policies should not burden public transit operators. Environmentally friendly technologies and effective use of monitoring technologies can also make buses more attractive.

1. UITP PTx2 Strategy: What Role for
Busses and Recommendations from
International Seminar on the
renewal of Public Transport UITP Istanbul Bus Declaration
Bus Fleets
17 September 2012, Skopje,
Macedonia
Kaan Yıldızgöz
Senior Manager @ UITP MENA Center for
Transport Excellence
Head @ UITP Turkey Office

2. Challenges & Trends
• Population & Urbanisation
• Car Ownership
• Energy
• Environment
• Economy

3. Why is public transport important?
How are we going to make it?
• Cities and Governments now have an unmissable
opportunity to lay new foundations for the next phase of
economic development and wealth creation. For Urban
mobility this implies to prioritise public transport rather
than to keep on building new highways and supporting
car industry, which would only aggravate the problems
faced today by our cities.
• Only ambitious and visionary strategies will lead to a
radical paradigm shift…

4. "A developed country is not a place where
the poor have cars. It's where the rich use
public transportation.“
Gustova Pedro
Lord Mayor of Bogota

6. Setting Ambitions Picking Solutions
• Public Transport • Develop visionary integrated
Empowers the Economy urban policies
• Public Transport helps the • Create a new business culture
planet breathe
• Secure stable funding and
• Public Transport investment schemes
Alleviates Congestion
• Do not hesitate to use stick-
• Public transport brings and-carrot tactics
everyone everywhere
• Deliver life style services to
become the mode of choice for
citizens

7. Bus Transport
• Bus systems account for 80% of all public transport
passengers worldwide
• in Europe, the Public Transport share for the Bus is 60%
in average
• this varies from 50% for the Bus in Big Cities upto 100%
share of the Bus of the Public Transport in small and
Medium Sized cities.
• Busses are key to contribute to the PTx2 target.

9. • Doubling the public transport share on roads does not
simply mean doubling the bus fleet. This also implies that
urban road space must be physically shared between the
road based modes according to their road usage
performance on passenger movement. This means that
providing the right of way for the buses on urban roads.

10. Sharing road space gives many advantages
to public transport besides other traffic:
• The commercial speed of buses will increase, passengers’ travel-time budget will
be less, operating cost of buses will decrease and operational performance will
increase.
• Both buses and cars will run smoothly. Thus traffic flow will not be interrupted by
busses and bus stops.
• Since the number of lanes for the buses is limited, the bus routes and number of
buses on each route will be rationalized, thus increasing the operational
performance of the total transportation system.
• When the demand exceeds the capacity, bus lanes will be converted to BRT for
higher passenger capacity with a reasonable cost. The corridor will be ready for
such a change.

11. Involvement of private sector to the system
should be ensured:
• Public authorities should define clear legal regulations and
effective obligations on service quality, efficiency, performance,
stable business environment and fair competition for different
actors to operate in the market.
• Public transport sector actors should be prepared to get
involved in Public-Private partnerships initiatives.
• Since increasing the attractiveness of public transport is the
major policy objective, then authorities should consider and
implement special arrangements to attract new passengers by
lowering fuel tariffs, by reducing some taxes, like VAT, for the
public transport services.

12. Involvement of private sector to the system
should be ensured:
• For stable business environment transportation fares must be
adjusted automatically due to the changing conditions.
• There is a need to relief the public transport operators from
their social role. Today, public transport operators are providing
reduced fares for certain passenger groups from their own
funds. Such social policies should be carried out by the
government or by the authorities taking such a social decision
or by associations responsible from these special passenger
groups.

13. Environment Friendliness
• To decrease the amount of emission and to consume less fuel-
oil has become a definite obligation for urban bus operations.
Environment friendly technologies exist and are emerging. They
should be introduced in a serious way, but not as a “green
washing” exercise, or as a public relations gimmick.

14. Effective Use of Technology
• Effective use of technology will help make the buses of
tomorrow even more attractive for passengers. Only the use of
the latest technologies will allow buses to compete with private
cars. Technology will also provide authorities to have better
performance management, monitoring and regulation; thus
resulting with positive operation budgets.

16. UITP PTx2 Strategy: What Role for
Busses and Recommendations from
International Seminar on the
renewal of Public Transport UITP Istanbul Bus Declaration
Bus Fleets
17 September 2012, Skopje,
Macedonia
Kaan Yıldızgöz
Senior Manager @ UITP MENA Center for
Transport Excellence
Head @ UITP Turkey Office