BUS PRIORITY SCHEMES

Data are presented in tabular form of all known bus priority schemes in England and Wales, including details of town, location, type of scheme (bus lanes, contra-flow, with flow, right and left turns, access to pedestrian areas, traffic signal priority, etc.), starting date review date, approximate length of lane, days of operation, hours of operation, permitted users, desirable extra conditions & comments. The range of permitted users varied widely to include contract, express, taxis, cycles, emergency vehicles etc. The main points of comment by the operators concerned the need for improving enforcement, particularly in bus-only lanes, and sometimes coupled with the need for a loading and unloading ban on goods vehicles. The geographical location of the schemes is shown on a map in Appendix B. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  National Bus Company, England

  Deanery Mews, Minister Precincts
  Peterborough PE1 1XX, Cambridgeshire,   England 
• Publication Date: 1975-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 34 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Bus lanes; Bus priority; Buses; Law enforcement; Traffic flow; Traffic lanes; Traffic signal preemption; Traffic signals; Turning traffic
• Uncontrolled Terms: Turning movements
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 669: Area traffic control; 3882: Automatic; 1272: Bus; 8525: Conference; 3874: Control; 8673: Digital computer; 1534: Enforcement (law); 343: Industrial area; 455: Junction; 977: Kerb side parking (parallel to the kerb); 8516: Lecture; 955: Parking; 612: Peak hour; 648: Priority (traffic); 744: Public transport; 307: Residential area; 6120: Sensor; 8645: Software; 654: Traffic control; 671: Traffic flow; 2827: Traffic lane; 565: Traffic signal; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139112
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: Report No. 7 Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 9 1977 12:00AM