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TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 185: Bus Operator Workstation Design for Improving Occupational Health and Safety provides guidance to transit agencies and bus manufacturers as they integrate emerging technologies into current procurement practices and improve bus operator workstation design across the transit industry.

The research produced practical guidance documents and tools applicable to the procurement process and bus design, including a suggested procurement process and strategies for transit agencies to develop, train, and support a bus procurement team; training for the procurement team, including an ergonomics training module for bus operators; guidelines to update TCRP Report 25: Bus Operator Workstation Evaluation and Design Guidelines; and a digital model of a bus operator workstation that may be used by designers and transit agencies to develop specifications.

Organization Guidance Tools

Suggested Procurement Practices for Bus Operator Health and Safety

Procurement Team Training

Ergonomics for Bus Operators Training Template

Design Guidance Tools

Bus Operator Workstation Feature Guideline

Bus Operator Workstation Engineering CAD Model (IGS File)

Bus Operator Workstation Engineering CAD Model (STEP File)

Bus Operator Workstation 3-D PDF Model

Bus Operator Workstation 3-D PDF User’s Guide

Appendices D, E, and F to this report are briefly summarized in the published report. Links to the complete appendices can be accessed from the project webpage.

Suggested Citation

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. Bus Operator Workstation Design for Improving Occupational Health and Safety. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/23478.

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Publication Info

126 pages |  8.5 x 11 |  DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/23478
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