{"id":669,"date":"2009-08-27T12:07:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/?p=669"},"modified":"2009-08-27T12:07:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:07:36","slug":"how-level-boarding-at-our-new-vivastations-will-further-enhance-service-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/27\/how-level-boarding-at-our-new-vivastations-will-further-enhance-service-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"How level boarding at our new vivastations will further enhance service efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_677\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-677\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-677\" title=\"With level boarding, the vehicle will pull up to a raised platform. This greatly increases the time it takes for passengers to get on and off the vehicle making for a faster trip.\" src=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/levelboarding.jpg\" alt=\"With level boarding, the vehicle will pull up to a raised platform. This greatly increases the time it takes for passengers to get on and off the vehicle making for a faster trip.\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/levelboarding.jpg 450w, https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/vivanext.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/levelboarding-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a rendering of a viva vehicle stopping at a new vivastation. With level boarding, the vehicle will pull up to a raised platform. This greatly decreases the time it takes for passengers to get on and off making for a faster trip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Viva is already a highly efficient rapid transit service thanks to features such as our off-board fare collection system. It\u2019s going to get even better. In addition to our new vivaNext <a title=\"Rapidways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/rapidways\" target=\"_blank\">rapidways<\/a> \u2013 which will take our beautiful blue Viva vehicles out of mixed traffic and put them on dedicated centre lanes so they can safely speed past congested traffic \u2013 our new <a title=\"vivastations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vivanext.com\/gallery_rapidways\" target=\"_blank\">vivastations<\/a> will feature <a title=\"level boarding\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gzbrt.org\/en\/stations.asp#preb\" target=\"_blank\">level boarding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What do I mean by level boarding? Simply that the platforms at our new <a title=\"vivastations\" href=\"http:\/\/vivanext.com\/blog\/category\/stations\/\" target=\"_self\">vivastations<\/a> will be raised so they are about the same height as the floor of our Viva vehicles. This, in turn, will speed up the boarding process by eliminating the need for riders to climb steps or lift objects, and for Viva drivers to lower ramps for easier accessibility.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Level boarding video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gzbrt.org\/videos\/on-off.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Level boarding<\/a> is already successfully used throughout the world by other <a title=\"BRT\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bus_rapid_transit\" target=\"_blank\">BRT<\/a>, <a title=\"LRT\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bus_rapid_transit\" target=\"_blank\">LRT<\/a> and subway systems to enhance service efficiency. It only made sense to make it a feature of our new vivastations so that we can get you where you want to go faster and easier, and like never before.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of other things that might make your rapid transit experience even better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viva is already a highly efficient rapid transit service thanks to features such as our off-board fare collection system. It\u2019s going to get even better. In addition to our new vivaNext rapidways \u2013 which will take our beautiful blue Viva vehicles out of mixed traffic and put them on dedicated centre lanes so they can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,67],"tags":[162,40,39,8,114,160,49,161,14,34,11,939,48,6,7,70,9],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rapidways","category-stations","tag-accessibility","tag-brt","tag-bus-rapid-transit","tag-connections","tag-highway-7","tag-level-boarding","tag-newmarket","tag-off-board-collection","tag-rapid-transit","tag-rapidway","tag-transit-only-lanes","tag-urban-planning","tag-vaughan","tag-viva","tag-vivanext","tag-vivastation","tag-york-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yrrtc.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}