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Euro stop times best

6th December 1974
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FOLLOWING a detailed study of the stop times of one-man-operated buses in Copenhagen, The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam a report published, this week by the DoE's Transport and Road Research Laboratory shows that boarding times were substantially quicker than in the UK. Figures of 1.85 seconds per passenger were recorded in both Copenhagen and The Hague.

The report says that these times were not as quick as those for two-man buses and were dependent upon the use of flat fare structures and a high level of pre-payment. Such arrangements, says the report, would have serious financial implications for UK operators and all of the cities studied receive substantial operating subsidies.

In practice, the report found, there were relatively large dead-times making average stop times not particularly low. In a typical pattern of usage peak-hour stop times range from 10.6 to 12sec compared with the lowest UK 1-man result of 10.5sec. Three of the systems could, however, achieve results of between 9 and 10Sec on buses with low deadtimes.