Ms. Amy Datz, Program Manager, Public Transit Office, Florida Department of Transportation, 850-414-4539
FSU’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning produced for the Public Transit Office at FDOT the handbook, Accessing Transit: Design Guidelines for Florida’s Transit Agencies. This document, prepared by Professors Harrison Higgins and Ivonne Audirac and graduate research assistants from the Florida Planning and Development Lab, provides advice on designing bus passenger facilities, siting them, accommodating different operational plans, and providing for transit- and pedestrian-friendly design both within the roadway and adjacent to it.
“Accessing Transit” deals with urban design, transit planning, transit operations, capital improvements, roadway design, the principles of sustainable development and construction, land use and interagency cooperation. It also provides a comprehensive annotated bibliography and literature review of bus-passenger-facility planning, siting and design. The literature covers a variety of topics including pedestrian and bicycle access, transit facility design guidelines, transit oriented development and funding and marketing of bus transit.
