Course Description

This course provides an overview of the definition of public transport, public transport management and related matters, public transport needs by measuring demand and determining public transport route service patterns. The operational stage provides an overview of bus travel schedule arrangements during peak and off-peak hours as well as arrangements for bus crews, planning of stop systems and infrastructure (types, components, criteria and planning stages), terminals and their facilities (definition and function, type of terminal, consideration of classification of transport terminals, basic considerations in determining the location of public transport terminals, factors influencing terminal location, terminal planning criteria, activity groupings, movement patterns in terminals, parking systems, vehicle circulation, space requirements for terminal facilities, service space standards, components in the terminal, types of bus terminals based on location, types of street buses based on the form of infrastructure in the terminal building).