Kassel kerb

The Kassel Busbord is a concrete profile that is used at bus stops, where low-floor vehicles hold (buses, trams or light rail ) as a boundary stone. It is named after Kassel after it was developed there for the first low-floor light rail system in Germany. Meanwhile it has developed into a widely used standard for the equipment of urban traffic stops.

Kassel Kerb

Efforts to accessible design culminated in 1996 in the first part of DIN 18024 ( " Barrier-free construction - Part 1: streets, squares, paths, public transport and parks and playgrounds, design principles "). Kassel was this pioneer and tested low-floor buses for public transport since 1992., The use of low-floor buses in public transport with boarding platforms but showed an increased tire wear due to contact with the curb. The Kassel transport company therefore collected since 1994 ideas to correct the problem with the help of a special design of the curb profile, or " special board ". A manufacturer has been with the Cheerful Bau AG in Gensungen south of Kassel found that had a patented Profile Stone ( EP0544202/1993 ). After the liquidation of the production was transferred to the profile Beton GmbH in Borken (Hesse), also south of Kassel. By 2001, then, about a sixth of the bus stops in Kassel were retrofitted with the Kassel Kerb.

The Kassel design is characterized by the fact that the board is very smooth and also curved so that a bus with his tire can accumulate without too much wear on it without aufzuklettern. Through a contact area in front of the curvature of a pressing inward of the rim is thereby avoided. The top of the profile is structured non-slip and can therefore easily be detectable by a blind and visually impaired. The bright concrete used produces a high contrast to the sidewalk fixing and thus facilitates visual recognition for the visually impaired. The possibility of extremely dense driving up together with the height of the rim make barrier- free access to the transport possible.

Dresdner Combibord

The Dresden Combibord is a parallel development of a concrete profile that is derived from the platforms of low-floor trams. The development began with the introduction of the first low-floor trams in Dresden ( the type articulated railcar NGT6DD in the period 1995-1998); the Combibord patent was issued in July 1997 (DE 19730055 ). The rounded game of the bus is given a chance: approaching closely similar to the platform of the tram.

The Dresden Transport appoint the following properties:

  • Board height of the platform near the door of the tram at least 23 cm
  • Board height of the platform near the door of the bus at least 18 cm
  • Residual threshold between platform and tram up to 5 cm
  • Residual threshold between platform and bus up to 8 cm
  • Residual gap between platform and tram / bus up to 5 cm
  • Stops at islands a barrier-free transition to / from the public sidewalk area with a maximum residual threshold of 3 cm and a maximum ramp rate of 6%

Variants

  • The Erfurt Busbord is used since 2007, this has a height of 24 cm. ( in Kassel Busborde were used with 18 cm).
  • The Berlin Combibord has a height of 21 cm above top of rail used ( in Dresden profile elements are used with 24 cm above top of rail ).
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