Central transfer point
As a central connection stop in is public transport (PT) having a central station referred to as a transfer point in line traffic is used or to switch between different modes of transport. This is often a traffic junction , a connection point or a clock node .
The term is sometimes used synonymously with Central Bus Station (ZOB), but sometimes it is also used to denote an important (and “central”) hub outside of a ZOB.
In common parlance, the term is also used for a central location in the city that serves as a transition from long-distance traffic to public transport. It is often used to mark the station forecourt , which, especially in large cities, serves as a "central transfer point between the station and the city" not only to "link up with the various inner-city means of transport", but also "always" during the development of large cities in the 19th and 20th centuries became more of a fixed point in the urban spatial order ”.
Examples
- In Kempten (Allgäu) the bus station of the Verkehrsgemeinschaft Kempten is referred to as the “Central Bus Transfer Point” or “ZUM” for short.
- In Chemnitz the corresponding stop is called Zentralhaltestelle.
- In Gera , the Heinrichstraße stop of the Gera tram is also known as the Heinrichstraße central transfer point .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Bob Martens : The station forecourt in the big city in the 19th and 20th centuries , VWGÖ, Vienna 1988, p. 122, ISBN 3-85369-718-6 (= dissertations from the Technical University of Vienna , volume 46, also dissertation at the TU Vienna 1987 - partial excerpt in the Google book search ).
- ↑ See central bus transfer point - City of Kempten (Allgäu) . On: Website of the Kempten Transport Association (www.zum-kempten.de). Retrieved July 17, 2012.
- ↑ Cf. BauService H35 - a specific service area of the city administration of Gera in the H35 . On: Website of the city administration of Gera . Retrieved July 17, 2012.