Bus stop: types and state standard specifications

The bus stop is a small architectural form, designed, in addition to ensuring the convenience of passengers waiting for public transport, to serve as a decoration of city streets. Currently, a variety of types of such structures are produced. What should be guided when choosing one or another design, are there certain standards for their construction? This is what we will talk about in this article.

Bus stop: varieties of pavilions

The classification of stopping complexes is based on various characteristics. Firstly, the pavilions vary in degree of capacity. The choice of the type of pavilion for a particular site depends primarily on how many passengers the object will pass. In this regard, the following types of stops are distinguished:

• low capacity (up to 10 people);
• medium-capacity structures (designed for 10–20 people);
• large capacity (more than 20 people).

Also, pavilions may vary in layout features. From this point of view, there are stops:

• open type (no blocking structures);
• half-closed type (three walls);
• closed type (often retrofitted by the cash register).

Installing a bus stop of a certain design and design is a quite responsible process and requires a serious approach. After all, these structures are in the open and clearly visible. Therefore, special requirements are imposed on the design of these small architectural forms.

Types of designs

In rural areas and on country roads, a bus stop is very common - this is an element that blends in harmoniously with the surrounding natural landscape. At the same time, folklore motifs are usually present in the design. Such structures are constructed using local materials. Stops of this kind serve as a real decoration of the route and are warmly perceived by people passing by.

In urban conditions, it is more successful to use a more modern technocratic option. In this case, the bus stop is primarily one of the elements of the urban design of the streets of the metropolis. In the manufacture of these structures, materials such as metal profiles, concrete, plastic, polycarbonate, etc. are most often used.

Bus stops: GOST

Of course, to such structures of increased danger special requirements are presented, reflected in GOSTs. So, each stop should include such elements:

1. 
   Stop and landing sites.
2. Waiting areas (on the roads of I - III category).
3. Riding pocket.
4. Dividing strip (when the road adjoins the pavilion and in the zone of road intersection).
5. A pedestrian crossing or walkway should be located nearby.
6. Benches
7. For roads of category I – III, a toilet is installed near the stop.
8. In the same case, the presence of a garbage container near the pavilion is provided. If we are talking about a highway of category IV, the stop is equipped with an urn.
9. The stop should be lit.
10. Of course, in the vicinity of the pavilion, all traffic signs provided for by traffic regulations, fences and markings should be installed.

A bus stop as one of the most important elements of the road design should have the most aesthetic design, attract attention and harmoniously fit into the surrounding landscape.