BUS PRIORITY IN INNER LONDON 1. COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE BUS PRIORITY STRATEGIES

This article reports an exercise to determine the best way of deploying bus priority measures in inner London. A computer model is used to predict the effects of three types of bus priority measure: bus lanes (short lanes at points of delay and a network of continuous lanes); a restricting cordon controlling the volume of non-bus traffic entering the central area; a series of bus-and taxi-only streets. The methods are evaluated in terms of the costs and benefits to bus passengers and other road users. The concluding section discusses some of the assumptions of the model and further considers the advantages and disadvantages of the measures. it is pointed out that the cost effectiveness of all the measures would be enhanced by improvements to the bus services. /TRRL/

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  Printerhall Limited

  29 Newmart Street
  London W1P 3PE,   England 
• Authors:
  • BUCHANAN, C M
  • Coombe, R D
  • Hewing, R B
• Publication Date: 1974-2-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 480-486
• Serial:
  • Traffic Engineering & Control
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue Number: 10/1
  • Publisher: Hemming Group, Limited
  • ISSN: 0041-0683
  • Serial URL: http://www.tecmagazine.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Benefit cost analysis; Bus lanes; Bus priority; Bus transportation; Buses; Central business districts; Cost effectiveness; Digital computers; Level of service; Mathematical models; Public transit; Streets; Taxicabs; Traffic lanes; Traffic restraint; Traffic signal preemption
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Bus streets
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 1243: Car; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 8673: Digital computer; 653: Level of service; 6473: Mathematical model; 648: Priority (traffic); 1148: Taxi; 311: Town centre; 2827: Traffic lane; 633: Traffic restraint; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I71: Traffic Theory; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00097476
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1981 12:00AM