TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SCHEMES AND BUS TRAFFIC

TRAFIKSANERING OCH BUSSTRAFIK

Measures usually taken in conjunction with traffic management schemes to assist bus traffic are: (1) prohibition of traffic other than buses on a certain street, (2) one-way schemes - while increasing speeds, these result in longer distances, (3) bus lanes arranged either at the side or in the centre of a street, (4) traffic lights with bus priority. Priority can be either passive or active. Prohibitions and restrictions are often insufficient since other traffic ignores them, and engineering measures therefore have to be taken. These can be: (5) construction of bumps or depressions, (6) staggered narrowing of carriageway on alternate sides, (7) narrowing of carriageway at certain points, (8) rumble strips or surfacing different from rest of carriageway. Bumps or depressions, staggered or narrowed carriageways achieve about the same reduction in speed. However, the easier an obstacle is made for a bus, the easier it will also be for cars to pass over it. Trials have also been carried out using barriers or booms which can be opened either automatically or physically by buses, or depressions at narrowed portions of the carriageway which can be straddled by buses but cannot be passed by cars owing to a kerb in the centre which is higher than a car's ground clearance. (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Kollektivtrafikberedningen

  P.O. Box 1339
  Solna,   Sweden 
• Publication Date: 1984

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 78 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus priority; Buses; Hazards; High occupancy vehicle lanes; Highway traffic control; Obstructions (Navigation); One way streets; One way traffic; Right of way (Traffic); Rumble strips; Speed control humps; Traffic lanes; Traffic restraint; Traffic signal preemption; Traffic signals
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 639: Exclusive right of way; 1644: Obstacle; 2771: One way street; 648: Priority (traffic); 551: Road stud; 2849: Rumble strip; 2827: Traffic lane; 633: Traffic restraint; 565: Traffic signal
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00387597
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Report/Paper Numbers: KTB Rapport 1984:2
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 30 1984 12:00AM