Boarding platforms

The buses in this picture use a station with a central platform with a boarding platform, on each side.

Transportation experts use the term boarding platforms for the portions of transit route where vehicles stop to let riders board, or disembark from its vehicles.

Some stations have a central platform with a boarding platform, on each side. Other stations place pairs of boarding platforms on the outside of the route used by vehicles.

Finally, a station design pioneered in Spain, has platforms on both sides f the vehicles, which is particularly useful when vehicles stop on the routes busiest stations.