Bus priority techniques have been widely implemented in recent years in an effort to improve the effectiveness of public transportation. To facilitate the evaluation of bus priority operations, a new automated technique for data recording and analysis was developed and applied to a demonstration project in Miami, Florida, in which two schemes were evaluated. The first involved preemption of 35 traffic signals along an arterial route. In the second, an exclusive bus lane was added to the system, with the signal preemption features retained. The measures of effectiveness used to evaluate the two bus priority techniques include speed, delay, travel time, fuel consumption, and comfort measures such as speed noise, number of stops, and speed changes. It was found that both priority techniques resulted in significant improvement in all of the measures of effectiveness. The most dramatic improvement occurred in the number of unscheduled stops, which were reduced by 87%.
I-95/NW 7th Avenue Bus/Car Pool Systems Demonstration Project Report I-2. Effects of NW 7th Avenue Bus Priority Systems on Bus Travel Times and Schedule Variability
1978
75 pages
Report
No indication
English
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Road Transportation , Urban transportation , Buses(Vehicles) , Limited access highways , Vehicular traffic control , Travel time , Traffic signals , Traffic engineering , Interstate highway system , Florida , Bus priority systems , Traffic signal preemption , Miami(Florida) , Reversible lanes , Peak hour traffic control , Exclusive bus lanes , Public transportation , Traffic flow , Modal split , Park and ride , Car pool lanes , Interstate highway 95 , U.S. highway 441