AN APPLICATION OF TRANSYT FOR MIXED CAR/STREETCAR OPERATION

While the TRANSYT model for optimization of fixed-time traffic signals in a network of mixed transit and private vehicle traffic is well established, certain interactions between transit and nontransit vehicles are not properly modelled in TRANSYT. As a consequence, the optimal signal timing plan and network performance measures generated by TRANSYT may not be appropriate for the actual network. The paper briefly reviews a modelling procedure, adapted for use in the TRANSYT program, that goes some way toward overcoming TRANSYT's deficiencies in the representation of mixed traffic operation. The procedure is applied to a 6 kilometre corridor of mixed traffic operation in Toronto, Canada, to estimate the potential effects of incorporating streetcar operations in the optimization of fixed-time traffic signals.

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• Authors:
  • Joyce, P
  • Yagar, S
• Publication Date: 1990-3

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 79-86
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 24A
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Computer programs; Mathematical models; Optimization; Pretimed traffic signal controllers; Stopping; Streetcars; Traffic delays
• Identifier Terms: TRANSYT (Computer program)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00493782
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 1991 12:00AM