Bussveien between Hillevåg and Musegata in Stavanger, Norway

This paper aims to present principles of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system together with its impact on cities such as improvement of travel speed of buses, increased ridership, and higher reliability of public transportation on the example of Stavanger. Implementation of Bussveien in Stavanger will lead to changes in the city. One of them is the location of bus stops. For the section between Hillevåg and Musegata, the walking time analysis was done for the new proposal and compared with existing conditions to find out that Bussveien will extend walking time to bus stops. Lastly, 3D modelling software Novapoint was investigated for its utility in the planning process such as improvement of accuracy and stakeholders cooperation to be found out that it has a slightly positive impact. Additionally, a 3D model of Bussveien for a given section was constructed in Novapoint to find out that the software is not very accessible for novice users because of its lack of intuitiveness and prevalence of errors. The motivation behind this project, and particularly 3D modelling in Novapoint, was the author's interest in learning the use of software which can help later in his professional career