Cross-platform interchange

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A combined platform is a platform where passengers can change between different means of transport that have different requirements in terms of route and/or platform height. It is a relatively new but now popular idea to better link public transport.

Typically, this is understood to mean a central platform with a rail vehicle (railway, underground, light rail or tram) stopping at one edge and buses on the other (possibly under a common platform roof). Ideally, this should make it possible to transfer from a rail, light rail or tram carriage to a low-floor bus without having to climb a single step.

If street-level tram tracks are provided on the "bus side", the platform can also link them to light rail or rail.

The platforms that have become common in railway operations in recent times, where there are tracks on both sides, but with different platform heights, are not normally referred to as combined platforms. They have become necessary because, for example, three different standard platform heights (55 cm, 76 cm and 96 cm) are common in new railway stations in Germany.

Berlin S-Bahn and U-Bahn (Wuhletal)

Combined platform between Vogtlandbahn and Zwickau tram at the Zwickau Zentrum stop

Examples

between subway/urban railway and suburban railway:

Cologne-Chorweiler station (tunnel, opened in 1973 with tram, from 1975 with S-Bahn)
Munich-Neuperlach South station (embankment/bridge, since 1980)
Frankfurt (Main) Konstablerwache station (tunnel, since 1986)
Berlin Wuhletal station (embankment location, since 1989, built in the GDR)
Norderstedt Mitte station (tunnel/cut, since 1996 joint station of the U1 (Hamburg underground) and the A2 (AKN railway; suburban railway))
Leinfelden station (surface, since October 2015 joint station of Stadtbahn Stuttgart and S-Bahn Stuttgart)
Vienna Heiligenstadt station (surface, since 1987, common station of the underground line U4 and the suburban railway line S45)

between railway or metro and bus (or tram):

Bocholt train station
Kleve railway station
Train station Eschweiler Talbahnhof/Raiffeisenplatz
Station/bus Oerlinghausen
Station/Tram/Bus Rhöndorf
Underground station Oberursel Bahnhof in Oberursel (Taunus)
Mühlener railway station in Stolberg (Rhineland)
Ingelheim train station
Rödermark-Ober Roden station (platform 1: S1 and buses)
Enkheim underground station in Frankfurt am Main
Ginnheim underground station in Frankfurt am Main
Underground station Garching-Hochbrück
Lebach station (Saarbahn [S1]/RB 73 on one side and bus platforms A-F on the other)
Kleinblittersdorf train station (track 1: Saarbahn [S1] and buses)
Heddesheim OEG station (see also: Mannheim-Käfertal-Heddesheim railway line)
Schriesheim railway station (see also: Weinheim-Heidelberg railway line)
Großsachsen OEG station (see also: Weinheim-Heidelberg railway line)
Neuostheim OEG station (see also: Mannheim Kurpfalzbrücke-Edingen-Heidelberg railway line)
Train station Münstertal (Black Forest)
Kreuzlingen train station (Switzerland) (Track 1: S14 and post buses)