FIRST TRANSIT CONTRA FLOW LANE IN DOWNTOWN SAN FRANCISCO

Traffic congestion places a tremendous burden on transit vehicles in cities worldwide. San Francisco, California, located in the heart of the Bay Area region with a high influx of daily work population, is no exception to this dilemma. In 1973, the city and county of San Francisco established the Transit Preferential Streets (TPS) program to expedite transit service and to encourage greater use of public transit, which in turn reduces traffic congestion and air pollution. As part of the TPS program, San Francisco has implemented a variety of traffic measures including transit signal priority, bus lanes, bus bulbs, and boarding islands to reduce transit delay. The latest attempt to improve transit operations in the downtown area is the introduction of a transit contraflow lane.

• Record URL:
  • http://www.ite.org/traffic/documents/AHA99A32.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference proceedings available only on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Mirabdal, J
  • Yee, B
• Conference:
  • Transportation Frontiers for the Next Millennium: 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Date: 1999-8-1 to 1999-8-4
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 9p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Bus lanes; Bus priority; Bus traffic; Central business districts; Contraflow lanes; Public transit; Traffic congestion; Traffic delays; Traffic islands; Transit privileges
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco (California)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770316
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Publication No. CD-006
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 24 1999 12:00AM