Influence of Access Traffic on the Operational Efficiencies of Bus Lane and Main Road

As a way to implement bus priority policy, bus lane is widely used in various cities for its convenience and low-cost. The operational efficiency of bus lane is related to many factors, among which the form of roadside access traffic is of greater influence. This paper introduces two existing typical forms of access traffic, and uses the VISSIM simulation method to analyze the changing delay of bus flow, main road flow, and access point traffic flow in the different organization forms of access traffic. The appropriate values of the distance between entering points at basic traffic volume are recommended. Further comparative analysis of the delay changing trend is made under different bus flow and access point traffic flow, from which the application of recommended values can be easily seen. The results indicate that the shorter distance between entering points is better for the bus priority and meanwhile brings less negative impacts on the social traffic.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.08.187
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813023136
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2013 Xinchen Ye and Wanjing Ma
• Authors:
  • Ye, Xinchen
  • Ma, Wanjing
• Conference:
  • 13th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP 2013)
  • Location: Shenzhen , China
  • Date: 2013-8-13 to 2013-8-16
• Publication Date: 2013-11-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1648-1658
• Serial:
  • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
  • Volume: 96
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1877-0428
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/18770428/53
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus lanes; Bus priority; Highway operations; Traffic delays; Traffic flow; Traffic volume
• Identifier Terms: VISSIM (Computer model)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01505955
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 2014 5:03PM