Public Transport Systems

Aims :Inform the trainee the basics of planning and designing public transport networks and their different prerequisites.

At the end of the program, the participant will be able to:

Understand the planning and designing of public transport networks, routes planning and journey schedules.

Contents:

• Types of public transport networks
• Characteristics of public transport networks
• Estimate and assess demands on public transport
• Relationship between size of demands and the sort of means of public transport
• Planning of public transport routes
• Planning of stops and terminals and the distance between the stops.
• Putting journey schedules for public transport
• Revenues and expenditures of public transport

	Subject
First day	o Types of public transport networks o Characteristics of public transport networks
Second day	o Estimate and assess demands on public transport o Relationship between size of demands and the sort of means of public transport o Planning of public transport routes
Third day	Planning of stops and terminals and the distance between the stops. o Putting journey schedules for public transport o Revenues and expenditures of public transport o Evaluation