PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT IN CITY STREET OPERATIONS

The concept of giving priority to transit vehicles in the use of street space or in the use of green time at traffic signals is well-recognized. However, it has had relatively little application in the United States compared to Western Europe and Japan. The paper reviews the argument for greater application of preferential treatment; outlines a taxonomy or classification of types of preferential treatment; suggests a basis for developing standard warrants or criteria for each of the types of preferential treatment; and discusses some of the engineering and political pitfalls that may cause good, warranted projects to fail.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Design, Construction and Rehabilitation of Public Transit Facilities, held at Holiday Inn at the Embarcadero, San Diego, California, March 26-27, 1982.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  345 East 47th Street
  New York, NY  United States  10017-2398

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Bay, P N
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the Specialty Conference on Design, Construction and Rehabilitation of Public Transit Facilities, held at Holiday Inn at the Embarcadero, San Diego, California, March 26-27, 1982.
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 159-165

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus priority; Economic factors; Politics; Traffic control; Traffic delays; Traffic engineering; Traffic signal preemption; Travel time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria; Trip time
• Old TRIS Terms: Priority treatment
• Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00370352
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 1983 12:00AM