MEASURES TO IMPROVE THE FLOW OF GROUND-LEVEL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN CITIES

DIRECTIVES SUR L'AMELIORATION DE LA CIRCULATION DES TRANSPORTS COLLECTIFS DE SURFACE DANS LES VILLES

Suggestions are given for the technical services of Urban Traffic Authorities of congested French cities. Practical ideas or low-cost fragmentary measures currently enforced in various urban areas are collected. The goal is to promote policies favoring mass transportation, leading to better use of existing facilities and urban networks. They include: Impact of parking policies on mass surface transit; Traffic improvements on streets used by bus lines; Lanes exclusively devoted to bus lines; Streets exclusively devoted to bus lines; Special bus traffic lights; Implantation and arrangement of bus stops. Evaluation criteria, police personnel requirements and the Marseille experiment are mentioned in annex.

• Corporate Authors:

  Ministry of Interior, France

  Paris,   France 

  Ministry of Transport, France

  Paris,   France 

  Ministry of Equipment and Housing, France

  Paris,   France 
• Publication Date: 1971

Language

• French

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 60 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus lanes; Bus priority; Bus stops; Buses; Elastic analysis; Facilities; Improvements; Parking; Police; Public transit; Streets; Studies; Traffic actuated controllers; Traffic signals; Transportation; Transportation operations; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation systems
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus streets; Elastic analysis (Structural); Parking studies; Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00072040
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Systems Center
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 22 1975 12:00AM