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The benefits of buses for cities

The benefits of getting more people out of cars and onto buses are huge for cities and national government. Better buses enable increases in employment and productivity that will benefit not just city residents and businesses but help drive the national economy. Buses support lower transport emissions to help the planet and clean up toxic air, more dense housebuilding to increase supply in unaffordable cities and avoid sprawl; and ensure that every member of the community has more equal access to public services and support, and friends and family that poor transport denies.

Major direct and indirect benefits of buses to cities include:

More productive cities. Harnessing the benefits that come with density in cities is vital to improve the wages and jobs available to residents. These benefits mean that despite accounting for just 0.08 per cent of the land in the UK, 14 per cent of jobs are located in city centres, and 25 per cent of all high-skilled jobs that offer the highest wages. This is because city regions offer the widest labour markets that high-skill firms need, and their centres are home to dense concentrations of other high-knowledge businesses that offer &#;knowledge spillovers&#; that increase productivity.

Buses support higher density by increasing the passenger capacity of the roads while relieving vehicular congestion, which is a downside of density in cities. Every car kilometre driven in the UK creates on average 17p of societal harm, mostly through congestion. Up to 90 passengers who might otherwise require over 80 cars to travel can be carried on a single double decker-bus in the road space of fewer than three cars.

This congestion challenge is growing as high-skill jobs concentrate in city centres. In Manchester, the number of city-centre jobs grew by 84 per cent between and , while in Birmingham, Bristol and Leeds the figure was over 30 per cent. Buses help cities to accomodate this growth without generating congestion. In , on average 23 per cent of workers in major city centres such as Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds commuted by bus.

More equitable growth. Nationally, the bus is the most-used public transport mode for people on lower incomes. Nearly 9 per cent of all trips by those in the lowest incomes are by local bus, compared to 3 per cent for those on the highest incomes. The figure for drivers is 27 per cent and 45 per cent respectively.

Better bus services also ease the congestion that slows down commutes and shrinks labour markets, hurting the poor most. Transport for the West Midlands (TfWM) and the Open Data Institute found that between and , congestion had led to 216,000 fewer people being within a 45-minute commute of Birmingham city centre by bus. Protecting and promoting buses over driving ensures city-centre jobs growth does not in the process exclude residents from benefitting.

More housing. In London, sites with the highest public transport accessibility scores support housing development for three to four times as many residents as sites with the lowest accessibility scores. Higher levels of bus use reduce the impact that high-density housing has on congestion. Bus services that enable parking requirements to be lowered reduces development costs. Greater housing density within cities means less land around them is required for housing, reducing sprawl.

Better health. Physical inactivity costs the UK £7.4 billion a year. Higher levels of bus use help to reverse the increase in physical inactivity that the growth in car use has caused. Higher levels of bus use build walking into journeys missing from car journeys.

Social inclusion. Better buses reduce time and cost barriers to seeing friends and family or getting out of the house independently.

Air pollution. Some 40,000 deaths a year are attributable to poor air quality in the UK. In real world conditions, modern diesel cars can produce nearly 1.4g/km of nitrogen dioxide, more than a modern diesel bus full of passengers.

Environment. Greenhouse gas emissions are heating the planet. The average newly-registered car emits one kilogram of carbon dioxide every seven kilometres, and nearly two tonnes of carbon dioxide a year on average.

Modal shift from car to bus maintains mobility but quickly cuts the number of vehicle journeys and harmful emissions cars produce. Shifting just 10,000 people from car onto an existing bus service for a 7km commute would remove over five million tonnes of carbon emissions in a year.

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Urban accessibility has been traditionally associated to the bigger and smaller amount of transportation, from the urban mobility perspective this is seen as a reductionist conception of the concept.

This happens because mobility means more than travelling from the point A to the point B, it also includes the different experiences and consequences lived by the commuters and not commuters.

So, the urban accessibility does not only imply to reach the transportation but also to reach the localization and the distribution of some key activities.

Nowadays it is essential for cities to provide their citizens with the better accessibility possible, for that they create new infrastructures for bicycles, buses, tramways, subways, etc.

Improving the accessibility of the cities can create more efficient public transportation, what directly leads to a bigger use of the public transportation by the citizens, and this can create several benefits for the city in general.

Advantages of platforms at bus stops.

A really good example is the use of platforms at bus stops that not only make easier for the commuters to get into the bus, but also for the bus driver to get in to the top, without the need of difficult maneuvers.

It has been shown that this has encouraged citizens to leave their cars at home and use the bus for short trips inside the city.

The use of the bus for those trips has some advantages such as:

1. Is less stressful. Rather than driving in traffic, you can use the time that you spend moving from one place to another by bus to do other things, such as reading, advancing some work, taking a nap, listening to music, doing important calls, etc.

2. Travelling by bus is cheaper than owning and operating a car.

3. Reduces pollution and road congestion &#; the more people who travel by bus, the fewer cars on the road.

4. You do not need to look for a place to park your card.

5. You can also meet new people in your trips.

6. In is one of the most secure means of transportation due to the experience that the drivers of a bus must have, and the road regulations that they must respect.

7. The use of buses that lead to the reduction of private car on the streets of our cities also reduces the acoustic contamination.

These advantages and others can be achieved by improving the urban accessibility of our countries.

But this it is a circular process: the more people that uses public transportation the better urban accessibility will be (because of the demand of the citizens), while at the same time, the better the urban accessibility is the bigger will be the amount of the users of this infrastructures.

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