BUS PRIORITY SIGNAL CONTROL EVALUATION

A before-after comparative analysis of the effect of bus priority signal control in the Dallas North Central Expressway Corridor is given for floating car and bus following runs. The results for the frontage road segments indicated that buses were favored significantly by the priority control, while the automobile travel factors did not improve. Bus travel improvement were indicated for the arterial segments in all the measures of effectiveness in the peak-flow direction, except for stops per mile. The cross street travel factors were all adversely affected by the bus priority control. The study shows the tradeoffs that can occur with bus priority control when comparing bus and automobile travel factors.

• 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:
  • Rogness, R O
  • McCasland, W R
• 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: Appendices; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 284-295

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Before and after studies; Bus priority; Bus transit; Performance evaluations; Signalization; Traffic control
• Uncontrolled Terms: Comparative analysis
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus transportation (Intracity)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00370363
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 28 1983 12:00AM