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  • GOVERNANCE AND CONTEXT OF THE AGGLOMERATION’S « BUS » SYSTEM
    • Mapping of urban mobility stakeholders
    • Existing bus fleet : inventory and outlook
    • Characteristics of the local context (physical environment)
  • ACQUIRING NEW VEHICLES: OBJECTIVES? TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS? SUPPORT MEASURES?
    • Development prospects of the transport system
    • Technical specifications
    • Adaptation of the legislative and regulatory texts
    • Maintenance organisation
    • Improving jobs and qualifications – New jobs
  • SUPPLIER SELECTION & VEHICLE PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES – FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENT
    • Sourcing and ajustements to the technical specifications
    • Invitation to tender procedure
    • Financial arrangement – Mobilisation of financing
  • OPTIMISING THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
    • The operating environment perceived by travellers
    • The operating environment at the service of the operator
  • MEASURING AND MONITORING THE RESULTS OF A BUS ACQUISITION PROJECT
    • Follow-up of the project
    • « Macro » effects of the project on the urban agglomeration
  • RESOURCES
    • The next step
      • The next step: Clarification of the roles and interplay between the stakeholders (institutional, private and paratransit)
      • The next step: Additional essential elements – an integral part of the specifications
      • The next step: Between the institutional offer and the paratransit offer: the challenges of renewal
      • The next step: Defining a procedure with the standard regulatory field (what is the procurement policy?)
      • The next step: Definition of the need and sourcing
      • The next step: How to get funding?
      • The next step: Identifying the features of the local context in order to adapt the choices made in terms of vehicles
      • The next step: Incorporating the purchase transaction within the legislative and regulatory context
      • The next step: Indicators for tracking the use of the bus network and its profitability
      • The next step: Indicators to monitor how buses are being renewed and the overall transport offer
      • The next step: Maintenance
      • The next step: Monitor the direct effects on mobility in the agglomeration
      • The next step: Operating equipment (street furniture, accessibility of bus stops, ticketing system, Système d’Aide à l’Exploitation et d’Information Voyageurs (operating assistance and traveller information system))
      • The next step: Operations and maintenance policy
      • The next step: Opportunities related to digital technology
      • The next step: Passenger information (network map, smartphone apps, timetables, brand identity guidelines and network name)
      • The next step: Putting together specifications that are in keeping with the needs and sourcing
      • The next step: The use of a central procurement office (when it exists)
      • The next step: Training
      • The next step:Elements to take into account when putting together the financial arrangement
      • The next step:Interest in continuously monitoring operations, over the short and long term
      • The next step:Network security (video surveillance, etc.)
      • The next step:The determining factors in terms of productivity (dead mileage, driving time, etc.)
    • TOOLS
      • Tool: Define the technical characteristics of the rolling stock
      • Tool: Online TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) calculator
      • Tool: The different bus system options
      • Tool: The MobiliseYourCity initiative to help cities in the south establish sustainable urban mobility plans
    • Operating experience
      • Operating experience: Active debt management: the example of SYTRAL in Lyon
      • Operating experience: Decline of the traditional bus company in Dar es Salaam between 1984-2017
      • Operating experience: Donations of rolling stock to be supervised more effectively (cf. the experiences of Lomé and Antananarivo)
      • Operating experience: Overloaded buses, a cause of passenger discomfort (Lomé and Antananarivo)
      • Operating experience: The Observatoire des Déplacements Urbains de la commune de Ouagadougou (urban travel observatory of the municipality of Ouagadougou), ODUO
      • Operating experience: The professionalisation of the paratransit sector in order to support the renewal of the fleet of « cars rapides » and « ndiaga ndiaye » in Dakar, Senegal
      • Operating experience: Urban transport fleet renewal programme in Dakar, Senegal
    • EXAMPLES
      • Example : SOTRAL bus specifications (Lomé, Togo, 2015)
      • Example: The Centrale d’Achat du Transport Public (public transport procurement centre) in France

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