Ideas

1. Accessibility and Universal Design

1.1 Policy on Universal Design

Department for Transport (UK)
2004 – European Conference of Ministers of Transport report on improving accessibility (with UITP – International Association of Public Transport)

1.2 Guidelines for Universal Design

• 2006 – European Conference of Ministers of Transport – Guidelines Towards Improving Accessibility

1.3 Consultation on Universal Design

New York – Research on Low-Floor buses (1998)

2. Bus Stops Design

2.1 Guidelines for Bus Stop Design

• London – Transport for London Accessible Bus Stop Design (2006)
  

2.2 Malaysian Bus Stop Design

• New Look for Bus stops (01/10/09)

3. Information and Signage

3.1 Guidelines on Information and Signage

• Legible London Project
• Transport for London Design Standards
• Typeface & font designs for various metro systems (courtesy of Metro Bits)
• Wayfound Victoria

4. Culture, Society and Public Transport

4.1 Art

• London Transport Museum visual art collections
• “My City Moves Me” – a photo movie from the Vancouver Skytrain courtesy of Kristopher Grunert
• Toronto subway art by Sigmund Serafin (courtesy of Transit-Toronto)
• Art on the DLR (Docklands Light Railway)
• Art on the Underground  – formerly called Platform for Art (London Underground)
• Singapore MRT’s North East Line – Art in Transit brochure, Art in Transit station tour, Stations (Chinatown)
• City Circle Line – Art Competition

4.2 Music

• rap video – I get on the TTC (Randal 4-man)
• Wir fahren mit der U-Bahn

4.3 Museums and Heritage

• List of public transport museums courtesy of Metro Bits;
• London Transport Museum, Online shop and research library;
• New York Transit Museum (wikipedia site with photos) & shop;
• Singapore Land Transport Gallery website & brochure;
• Saint Louis Museum of Transportation;
• Rotterdam Openbaar Vervoer Museum;
• Brussels Urban Transport Museum (Musée du Transport Urbain Bruxellois);
• Berlin S-bahn Museum, U-bahn Museum;
• Munich MVG Museum;
• San Francisco Railway Museum;

4.4 Corporate Branding and Design

• Collection of Metro Logos (courtesy of Metro Bits)
  

5. Architecture and Urban Design

5.2 Current Stations

5.2 Other examples

• Guide to the 50 most beautiful metro systems in the world (with star ratings) courtesy of Metro Bits
• Toronto Transit Commission Yonge-University Spadina extension (courtesy of Torontoist:
  • Steeles West Station
  • Sheppard West and York University Stations

6. Information about Public Transport-related Technology

6.1 Bus-based Technologies

• ‘Trailer’ Bus (also known as Articulated Bus)
• Hybrid Bus
• Bus Rapid Transit (IDTP Basic Introduction Course, ITDP BRT Planning Guide, ITDP BRT Fact Sheet, IDTP links on low-cost mass-transit;  VTPI document)
• Expressway Rapid Transit

6.2 Tram-based Technologies

• Trams (also known as Streetcars) – from VTPI,
• Rapid Trams (also known as Light-Rail Transit, LRT, or Light Rail)
• Tram Trains (also known as Light-Rail Transit, LRT, or Interurbans)

6.3 Mass Rapid Transit Technologies (MRT, MTR or Metro)

• Mass-Transit Course Module from ITDP
• 3rd Rail
• Overhead Pantograph

6.4 Special Technologies

• Maglev
• Guided Bus

6.5 Non-motorized Technologies

• Non-Motorized Transport Course Module (ITDP)
• Traffic Calming (ITDP Fact Sheet)

7. Organization, Policy Making and Advocacy in Public Transport

7.1 General Information

• International Association of Public Transport (UITP) / UITP Asia Pacific
• Victoria Transport Policy Institute (VTPI)
• Institute for Transport & Development Policy (ITDP)
• Transportation Planning (general information courtesy of Wikipedia)
• Transport Economics (general information courtesy of Wikipedia)

7.2 Policy Proposals & Resources

• Public Transport: the Smart, Green Solution (Resource page Courtesy of UITP)
• Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual, 2nd Edition (Transportation Research Board’s Transit Cooperative Research Program);
• Transit Benefits Guide (Victoria Transport Policy Institute)
• Bus Karo: A Guidebook on Bus Planning &  Operations (EMBARQ)
• Public Transport Network Planning in Australia: Assessing current practice in Australia’s five largest cities (Mees & Dodson);

7.3 Interesting Position Papers

• UITP position papers
• Rail+Property Development: A model of sustainable transit finance and urbanism (UC Berkeley Centre for Future Urban Transport);
• Gender and perceptions of public transport (Study courtesy of ITDP)
• Bikes on Bus Return on Investment Study (Courtesy of Center Research)

7.4 Public Transport Organizing Authorities

• London – Transport for London
• Singapore – Land Transport Authority / Public Transport Council / PublicTransport@SG
• Vancouver – TransLink
• Melbourne – Metlink
• Greater Toronto – Metrolinx

7.5 Passenger Advocacy Groups

• New York –  “Straphangers” (a.k.a. NYPIRG StrapHangers Campaign);
• Toronto – RocketRiders by Toronto Environmental Alliance;
• London – London Transport Users Committee;
• Singapore – Public Transport Council
• Melbourne – Public Transport Users’ Association, Sustainable Cities

7.6 Master Planning

• London – Mayor’s Transport Strategy;
• Singapore – Land Transport MasterPlan;
• Metrolinx (Greater Toronto) – The “Big Move”

7.7 Theoretical Perspectives on Transport Activism

• Mobility Justice, by Mimi Sheller
• Crystal Legacy, Dallas Rogers, Kristian Ruming, Nicole Cook – Planning the Post-Political City: exploring public participation in the contemporary Australian city