Did you know that a single bus can take 70 cars off the road? Or that Dublin has almost 200kms of Quality Bus Corridors? That's the distance from here to Tipperary!
Dublin City Council is pleased to encourage the use of public transport in our city - it's traditional, economical and environmentally friendly.
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Quality Bus Network Project Office – Background
Dublin City Council, on behalf of the four Dublin Local Authorities, has set up a Quality Bus Network (QBN) Project Office. The Office has been established to take responsibility for all aspects of bus priority measures set out in the transportation strategy document 'A Platform for Change' published by the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) in November 2001. The QBN Project Office aims to accelerate the implementation of the Quality Bus Network.
The QBC programme has been successful in providing an appealing alternative to the private car. The on-street public transport priority measures have resulted in:
- significant reductions in bus journey times
- substantial increases in bus passenger numbers
- increase in bus modal share after years of decline
The role of the QBN Project Office covers the areas of:
- Planning
- Programming
- Design
- Public consultation/approvals
- Procurement/construction
for bus priority measures in the Dublin region.
The QBN Project Office works to deliver the Quality Bus Network with:
- Local Authorities
- Garda Siochana
- Dublin Transportation Office
- National Roads Authority
- Department of Transport
- Railway Procurement Agency
- Bus operating companies
‘Platform for Change’ proposes a further programme of investment in on-street bus priority measures. The programme will complement the current Quality Bus Corridor programme and deliver an extended Quality Bus Network. The overall aim is to achieve a tight mesh of radial and orbital quality bus corridors linking the suburbs with each other and with the city centre. The measures to be implemented are as follows:
- enhancements and extensions to the existing Quality Bus Corridors
- the construction of new Quality Bus Corridors
- other bus priority measures on routes where the provision of a full Quality Bus Corridor facility would neither be feasible or justifiable. The emphasis will be on facilitating improved bus access to major residential, retail and employment centres.
Each of the bus priority schemes will be implemented in an integrated manner taking account of the needs of all road users including:
- local residents
- businesses
- cyclists
- pedestrians
- mobility impaired and disabled
Read a summary of ‘A Platform for Change’ from the DTO Website
Accident remedial measures and improved facilities for bus passengers will also be provided.
QBNPO Topographic Survey Specification for Urban Projects
This specification contains a detailed topographic survey specification and supporting quality assurance (QA) procedures for 1:250 urban works as implemented by the QBN Project Office and Dublin City Council. It has been developed over a period of years by a working group including members representing the interests of the City Council, private land survey firms, local government, civil engineering consultants, professional survey organisations, and survey software developers. In addition to the specification itself, the document provides a checklist of QA activities to be carried out to ensure that any given survey fully meets the specification in terms of accuracy and content.
The specification has been applied and refined over a number of large projects such that it has been shown to fully meet the demanding requirements of dense urban topographic surveys while being readily achievable by the survey contractor in a cost effective manner. Specifically, the specification has been shown to deliver consistent results in terms of high quality cartographic and 3d model output to AutoCAD / MX / Microstation and SCC, with well-defined relative and absolute accuracies.
The specification is based in the ITM grid, while still fully supporting the older IG75 grid. As such, the specification has proven a good mechanism for transitioning between the two grid systems. The specification currently requires that all outputs be provided in both grid systems, with the intention that the requirement to provide outputs in the older grid can be dropped once it becomes redundant.
This is the first full public release of the specification, and as such there is a bias towards the specific needs of the QBN Project Office in terms of content, accuracy, and desired output formats. It is intended that the specification will be updated based on feedback to this document to meet broader requirements.
Links:
South Dublin County Council
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Fingal County Council
Meath County Council
Dublin Transportation Office
Department of Transport
Dublin Bus
National Roads Authority