More doors cut queues in Berne
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• A four-door layout has been specified on all new city buses bought by Swiss municipal bus and tram operator SVB for service in the capital city Berne. And the novel system is improving bus efficiency by speeding up the alighting and boarding times.
Time spent at bus stops is cut to a minimum because the ticketing system used in Berne, and in most Swiss cities, frees the driver from collecting fares, and the fourdoor models make boarding very fast.
'rhe new vehicles are based on rear-erOned Volvo BlOR chassis fitted with 12m Ramseier & Jenzer bodywork to carry 83 passengers. Owing to the door design, which takes up over one-third of the nearside of the bus, there are only 29 seats on board, which is acceptable for the short routes of the SVB network.
Apart from the front door, which has a reduced width of 0.86m, the doors are all 1.21m wide.