The document provides design guidelines for various transportation terminals and pedestrian facilities. For bus terminals, it emphasizes bus circulation, passenger areas, and staff quarters. For pedestrian walkways, it recommends minimum widths, accessible crossings, and amenities like benches. When planning terminals, the document stresses considering connectivity between modes, capacity, passenger service levels, accessibility, safety, and amenities. Multi-modal planning integrates different transportation options like walking, cycling, cars, and public transit.
The document provides design guidelines for various transportation terminals and pedestrian facilities. For bus terminals, it emphasizes bus circulation, passenger areas, and staff quarters. For pedestrian walkways, it recommends minimum widths, accessible crossings, and amenities like benches. When planning terminals, the document stresses considering connectivity between modes, capacity, passenger service levels, accessibility, safety, and amenities. Multi-modal planning integrates different transportation options like walking, cycling, cars, and public transit.
The document provides design guidelines for various transportation terminals and pedestrian facilities. For bus terminals, it emphasizes bus circulation, passenger areas, and staff quarters. For pedestrian walkways, it recommends minimum widths, accessible crossings, and amenities like benches. When planning terminals, the document stresses considering connectivity between modes, capacity, passenger service levels, accessibility, safety, and amenities. Multi-modal planning integrates different transportation options like walking, cycling, cars, and public transit.
The document provides design guidelines for various transportation terminals and pedestrian facilities. For bus terminals, it emphasizes bus circulation, passenger areas, and staff quarters. For pedestrian walkways, it recommends minimum widths, accessible crossings, and amenities like benches. When planning terminals, the document stresses considering connectivity between modes, capacity, passenger service levels, accessibility, safety, and amenities. Multi-modal planning integrates different transportation options like walking, cycling, cars, and public transit.
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Design Guidelines for various Terminals:
BUS TERMINALS
Bus circulation in relation to ingress/egress points not the
passengers boarding line. Passengers concourse must be large enough to accommodate seasonal peaks - Quarters for driver and conductors. Bus service areas for repair/check-up with for mechanics and other staff. - Dispatchers booth. Ancillaries
Design Guidelines for Pedestrian Walkways and Facilities:
Pedestrian walkways should have a minimum of 1.0 meter to 1.5
meters clearance and this can be done by removing obstacles or by widening the path, to provide a clear passageway for wheelchair users. Pedestrian crossings should include a) Removing the slight drop (25 millimeters) from the footpath to the road and providing tactile to indicate the edge of the road for the visually impaired; b) Thickening road crossing lines to guide the visually impaired to walk within the designated crossing; c) Installing vibrating push button (with audio alert) at traffic signal posts to help the visually impaired; and d) Providing at-grade i.e., road-level crossings where traffic conditions permit. Traffic signs should be made out of higher reflectivity materials to improve visibility. Provide facilities that would enhance comfort, convenience, and attractiveness of pedestrian environment such as benches, streetlights, public toilets, and trees. Enforce standards pertaining to disability infrastructure like effective sidewalk width that must accommodate the width of a standard wheelchair (i.e., 0.815m minimum passage width). Dropped curbs at intersections and crossings must be provided to ensure smooth and seamless path for the physically challenged. Sidewalks should be 1.525m width to accommodate two wheelchairs passing opposite each other as well as allow 180-degree turn. Sidewalks must be cleared from permanent obstructions (e.g. posts, abutting structures, shanties, etc.) and temporary obstructions (e.g., vendors, stalls, parked vehicles, etc.) such that the effective width available for walking is at least 1.0m. For areas with heavy pedestrian volume, sidewalks must be wider to ensure desirable levels of service.
Specific Design Characteristics of Terminals:
Planning from scratch or redesigning a terminal focus on effective and
functional use of available space and on maintenance of the level of service for which is designed (Rivasplata, 2001). For this reason the following elements should be defined:
Number of modes and type of vehicles that will be served
Time period through which the terminal is expected to be operational maintaining the desirable level of Service without the need for extensions or reconstructions The expected level of activity in terms of number of passengers served, frequencies and passenger waiting times The variations in demand for transport (seasonal, monthly and daily)
Another factor that is important to be taken into consideration in the
operation of a terminal is the connectivity of the various modes serving it during the same part of the day. The level of connectivity is expressed as the number of terminal’s passengers who actually use multiple transportation modes in order to complete their trips. However it should be mentioned here that a specific terminal is mostly served by only one mode whiles the rest transport means provide their service outside the terminal (Goldberg, 2011). Concerning the securing of connectivity among the various public transport modes the following criteria should be fulfilled (Goldberg, 2011):
All modes involved, serve the same terminal building, or
Serve facilities that are within the same block, or Serve facilities in an adjacent block, but within a distance where the traveler does not have to cross a Major thoroughfare at an unprotected intersection, or cross some physical barrier, or Are located in buildings that are more than one block apart but are connected by either an enclosed structure or a conveyance operated by either the facility or one of the carriers involved for the sole purpose of facilitating a connection between modes in the two buildings.
Planning of Terminal Facilities:
An integral factor improving a transport system’s success is the quality of convenient transfers and the movement of passengers within terminal spaces. Interchange facilities are typically located at critical junctions of the route network where several types of services or modes intersect. Planning and designing terminals must consider two perspectives: the operator’s and the users. A high level of service entails a safe and permeable environment outside the terminal and convenient movement within.
There are five considerations when designing a good terminal, (see
Table 11): terminal capacity, passenger level of service, accessibility, commuter safety, and passenger amenities. This translates into an environment that facilitates quick, comfortable, and safe movement of people within and around terminals.
Table 11
In addition to these considerations, it is important to integrate terminal
facilities into the physical surroundings. This adds convenience to the user experience by providing access to peripheral uses such as retail or educational activities. This can also make the transit facility a focal point and enhance the commercial value of the property, in turn benefitting the agency.
Planning of Multimodal Transportation Terminals:
Multi-modal planning refers to planning that considers various modes
(walking, cycling, automobile, public transit, etc.) and connections among modes. There are several specific types of transport planning which reflect various scales and objectives:
Traffic impact studies evaluate traffic impacts and mitigation
strategies for a particular development or project. Local transport planning develops municipal and neighborhood transport plans. Regional transportation planning develops plans for a metropolitan region. State, provincial and national transportation planning develops plans for a large jurisdiction, to be implemented by a transportation agency. Strategic transportation plans develop long-range plans, typically 20-40 years into the future. Transportation improvement plans (TIPs) or action plans identify specific projects and programs to be implemented within a few years. Corridor transportation plans identify projects and programs to be implemented on a specific corridor, such as along a particular highway, bridge or route. Mode- or area-specific transport plans identify ways to improve a particular mode (walking, cycling, public transit, etc.) or area (a campus, downtown, industrial park, etc.).