3.9.1 Objective
Interchange facilities must provide transfer between services that is efficient, easy, safe
and equitable for all passengers. Interchanging should be made as comfortable as
possible by minimising the:
• Length of time taken to interchange
• Walking distance between services
• Complexity of navigating an unfamiliar interchange
• Security risk of changing between services
• Discomfort of waiting in the heat/cold/rain/sun/wind for connecting services.
Interchange facilities must:
• Accommodate current capacity and future growth
• Integrate with the surrounding urban environment.
Note – For major developments much of the investigation and planning work
will have been carried out and incorporated in the User Requirements Brief
before the Station Designer / Architect is engaged.
An understanding of the following overview is still required to develop a station
design.