1 Summary of the survey on dedicated bus lanes EMTA GM, , Budapest Tamás Dombi, ZTM Warsaw

2 Goal of the survey Priority for PT services, according to the Sustainable Transport Strategy Study on possible implementations of bus lanes First large-scale implementation in Sept 2009 ended with heavy discussion A need to convince the public, especially car drivers Idea: to show the status of dedicated bus lanes in other european cities

Bus lanes until 2009 and those proposed by the study

Status of the existing bus lanes 1Al. JerozolimskieA1 170stały /2001 2Al. JerozolimskieA225stały /2001 3al. NiepodległościA570stały /06/2002 4al. SolidarnościA850stały /05/2002 5al. SolidarnościPAT2 300stały al. SolidarnościPAT2 550stały al. SolidarnościA940stały pl. BankowyA290stały Trasa Łazienkowska j. płd.A5 450stały Trasa Łazienkowska j. pn.A5 840stały ul. BelwederskaA445stały ul. GrójeckaA870stały ul. KasprzakaA880stały ul. MarszałkowskaA300stały ul. MarszałkowskaA500stały ul. MłynarskaT930stały 930 po ul. ModlińskaA3 500stały /05/ ul. RadzymińskaA1 230stały po ul. SobieskiegoA1 190stały ul. SobieskiegoA1 233stały

Questions of the survey 1. Length of the existing bus lanes 2. Date of the introduction of the first bus lane 3. Reaction of the city population 4. What other vehicles are enabled to ride the bus lanes? 5. Consequences of a non-permitted use

6 Results of the survey (1/3) 15 answers - thank you very much! In every answering city, there are buslanes An average answering city has installed the first bus lane in 1981 and has today 114 km of bus lanes Taxis are everywhere accepted on bus lanes, except for Sevilla Bycicles are permitted in 6 cities, motorbikes in South Yorkshire

7 Results of the survey (2/3) Usage of bus lanes by non-permitted vehicles is everywhere fined Fines have a wide scale, from 25 EUR (Warsaw) up to 120 GBP (London) Some bus lanes are connected with a whole marketing concept (Zuidtangent, Amsterdam) In Torino there is an interesting idea to use the cameras in buses to collect evidence (photos)

8 Results of the survey (3/3) Reactions of the population:  Rather mixed: car drivers are against, PT passengers are happy  In most of the cities, increase of the PT market share was observed after implementation of bus lanes  STIF & Montreal have reported about a bad perception in a small extent

Total length of the bus lanes

Date of the first dedicated bus lane Birmingham1960'sValencia1984 Paris1965Montreal1980's Torino1960'sAmsterdam1986 Barcelona1968Warsaw1993 London1968South YS1994 Brussels1969Budapest1990's Lyon1970'sPrague1995 Vilnius2002 Average1981

Thank you for your attention! Tamás Dombi Dept for Transport Development