The special medical line is convenient for residents of surrounding communities to go to Tiantan Hospital and other large hospitals for medical treatment.
Citizens can take the shuttle bus to the three cultural buildings in the newly opened sub center of the city. (Photographed by Deng Wei)
The school bus will deliver the small passengers to the school gate "hand in hand"; The medical bus allows the elderly to "zero transfer" directly to the big hospital; Public transportation is convenient for citizens and tourists to travel to popular scenic spots on holidays... Since 2023, Beijing public transportation has launched a variety of personalized services, with 269 more diversified bus lines opened a year, a total of 826, to meet the differentiated travel needs of different groups. School starts in the spring of 2024, and the number of school buses is expected to increase to more than 200, serving nearly 10000 small passengers.
Direct medical treatment at home
At 8:00 sharp last Friday, the first bus of No. 7 Medical Special Line left at Fanjiacun Bus Station on time. This line goes directly to the Temple of Heaven Hospital and passes through many communities and subway stations. Mr. Xu, who lives nearby, chose to take this bus to the hospital. "Before going to the Temple of Heaven Hospital, we took the special 180 bus. After 8:50, there was no bus. It was not convenient to come back at noon. Now we can take a bus to the hospital at any time." Ms. Jia, a passenger, said that before she drove to the hospital, it would take a lot of time to park. "This bus can take you directly from your home to the hospital, so you don't have to queue up in the parking lot anymore."
The medical special line 7 is adjusted from the original special line 199. Zhang Hongjian, the administrative leader of the 18th motorcade of the 3rd Passenger Transport Branch of the Public Transport Group, introduced that the line runs every 15 minutes during the peak period of medical treatment from 8:00 to 10:30, and the departure interval in other periods is 20 minutes. Considering the road traffic environment and the early passenger flow, the vehicles are 6 meters long and 8 meters long. The seats on the vehicle are soft seats, so the patients, especially the elderly, are more comfortable to ride.
At the beginning of the new year, Beijing has opened two batches of 10 special medical lines, which are directly connected to Guang'anmen Hospital, Dongzhimen Hospital, Chuiyangliu Hospital, Haidian Hospital and other major hospitals. "In fact, 80% of the city's regular bus lines will pass through hospitals, but for the elderly with poor legs and feet, if they can't get on the bus at home or need to transfer, it will bring a travel threshold." Li Jinpeng, manager of Beijing Public Transport Group's line network center, introduced that in response to this situation, the bus group adjusted and utilized low peak capacity, Open a special medical line from the community to the hospital, so that the elderly can transfer less and walk less.
In September 2023, the city will pilot the school bus, pick up students at home, and make a one-stop through school. By the end of last semester, there had been 48 bus routes to schools, covering 21 schools. In January 2024, seven new tourist routes will be opened to facilitate citizens to travel to and from the three cultural buildings in the sub center of the city and scenic spots such as Badaling, Mutianyu Great Wall and Universal Resort on holidays. "The travel routes run on holidays, connecting subway and suburban railway, improving travel efficiency and complementing rail transit," Li Jinpeng said.
Customized according to citizens' "order"
The development of diversified bus routes is not a brainwave, but a customized personalized service through a series of links such as "ordering" of citizens and bus research.
The medical special line No.4 goes from the south entrance of Jinchan West Road to the north of Jinsong Bridge, which is convenient for residents in 5 communities along the way to the Chuiyangliu Hospital. "The nearest big hospital in Fatou and Nanmofang is Chuiyangliu Hospital. During the process of co construction with the community, we found that the elderly in many communities proposed that it was inconvenient to travel to the hospital. After taking other routes to get off, they had to cross two roads or overpasses to get to the hospital, and some still needed to transfer." said Hu Jiaqi, secretary of the Party branch of the 10th motorcade of the Second Branch of Bus Group.
According to the preliminary statistics, there are more than 700 elderly people in Pingyuan Community, Zinan Homeland, Overseas Chinese Town and other five communities who need to come to the hospital regularly for further consultation and prescription. "In order to accurately grasp the travel demand, we conducted a questionnaire survey on these elderly people. The survey shows that most elderly people hope to leave at 7:30 and return by bus near noon." Hu Jiaqi introduced that, in addition to setting the departure time as required, when selecting the station, he also invited resident representatives to make a field survey to determine the nearest bus station for the elderly to get on and off the bus. In order to avoid the traffic jam in the morning peak, the medical special line No. 4 avoids the congested section of the third ring road, and uses the left turn instead of the turn around under the double well bridge, to maximize the vehicle driving stability.
At the beginning of the line, some passengers put forward optimization suggestions, including increasing the departure frequency and optimizing the midway stations. Li Jinpeng said that he would accurately allocate transport capacity and improve and optimize routes according to passenger flow, travel time, etc. For example, from now on, the operation time of No. 6 medical special line will be adjusted from 7:00 to 7:30 in the direction of Haidian Huangzhuang North (Haidian Hospital), and from 11:30 to 10:40 in the direction of the south entrance of Wanliu Middle Road; At the same time, the "Haidian Huangzhuang West" station is added. Passengers can take the nearest bus out of the south gate of Haidian Hospital to the communities along Wanliu Middle Road.
It will lead to more hospitals, supermarkets and scenic spots
Diversified public transportation will be more and more open to residents' homes, and extend to hospitals, scenic spots, supermarkets and other popular travel areas.
"Next, Beijing public transport will continue to develop multi scene aging travel services, connect with the Municipal Health Commission, hospitals, communities, etc., expand the coverage of general medical lines; pilot the opening of public transport lines from communities to supermarkets during peak hours, etc." Li Jinpeng introduced that the route planning and design will fully analyze the characteristics and time periods of travel for the elderly, and try to avoid transfer, Direct to your destination.
At the beginning of the spring semester, the school bus will expand its service range from Xicheng District, Haidian District, Chaoyang District and Fengtai District to Dongcheng District, Shijingshan District, Tongzhou District and Daxing District. The number of routes will increase from 48 to more than 200, and the number of small passengers is expected to reach nearly 10000. During the winter vacation, the Public Transport Group will carry out the preparation of personnel and vehicles, improve the standard of selecting bus drivers for all students, and complete the special training before the start of school. The mini program for bus ticket booking will also be optimized, allowing students and parents to have more choices in ticket booking time and travel plans. (Sun Hongyang and Xu Shuang)
