London General Alexander Dennis Enviro200 SE302, one of the first buses to enter service in London fitted with a camera monitoring system (CMS) in place of wingmirrors. MARK LYONS
In 2017, 269 people were seriously injured and 11 killed as a result of a collision with a bus in London. That year, over 3,000 passengers were injured whilst travelling on buses.
The Mayor of London has made clear that loss of life and serious injuries on London’s roads are neither acceptable nor inevitable and TfL has adopted Vision Zero for London, with a target of no deaths or serious injuries by 2041. The ambition for buses is more ambitious – that by 2030 no-one will be killed in, or by, a London bus. To achieve this target TfL launched its Bus Safety Programme, which was tasked with developing the Bus Safety Standard, in February 2016.
The Bus Safety Standard was developed in conjunction with the Transport Research Laboratory and was launched in October 2018. It has four thematic areas:
Driver Assist, intended to help the driver avoid or mitigate the severity of incidents. It includes Intelligent Sp…
