Neil Williams wrote:
1) More sensible positioning of bus stops. It's worth considering
things like putting stops right up against traffic lights with some
sort of priority control so the bus can request the lights to change
in its favour when it's finished at the stop. I've seen this sort of
thing in a few places in Germany.
This kind of positioning of bus stops is quite usual over here in
Germany, often combined with extra traffic lights for buses, as seen
in these pictures: http://www.info-lsa.de/images/Fotos/...NV/CO_Bhf1.JPG,
http://www.info-lsa.de/images/Fotos/...trasse_Bus.JPG
These traffic lights contain "-" for "stop", "|" for "go", and often
"T" for "close doors" (_T_ueren schliessen), "V" for "yield"
(_V_orfahrt gewaehren), "A" for "request" (_A_nforderung) and many
more (often "/" or "\" instead of "|" to show the direction).

Priority control: The buses here in Stuttgart have infrared
transmitters, see http://www.info-lsa.de/images/Fotos/...PNV/Bus_IR.jpg
The receivers are placed on or nearby traffic lights, see
http://www.info-lsa.de/images/Sensoren/RBL.jpg
This stuff is linked together with the traffic light priority control
and the real-time-bus-arrival-displays on bus stops.

Torsten