MODAL-CHOICE ANALYSIS OF AN EXCLUSIVE BUS AND CAR-POOL LANE - ABRIDGMENT

This paper presents an analysis that was part of an assessment of the impact of implementing an exclusive bus and car-pool lane through the US-30, I-676, and Lindenwold High-Speed lane corridor. Because the exclusive bus and car-pool lane were non-existent at the time of the study, its market area was not defined. The market area was delineated by using overlay maps of the market areas, traffic surveys and select-link analysis. Travel demand matrices were constructed for the market area for the project year 1976. In modeling the effect of implementing an exclusive bus and car-pool lane on modal choice in the study corridor, a binary-choice logit model was used. Two alternative configurations of exclusive bus and car-pool lanes were analyzed. An exclusive bus and car-pool lane preempted from the non-peak-flow direction traffic lanes; and, an exclusive bus and car pool lane preempted from the peak-flow direction traffic lanes. The results of applying the model indicate that the implementation of an exclusive bus and car-pool lane would yield nearly identical exclusive lane use whether the lane were contra flow or peak flow. The study further indicated that a car pool is the least significant travel mode in the corridor. Even the implementation of an exclusive bus and car-pool lane on a congested, but vital, arterial highway seems to have little real effect on boosting the market sharing of car pooling.

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• Authors:
  • Mufti, R K
  • Golfin, L S
  • Dougherty, C D
• Conference:
  • 56th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1977-1-24 to 1977-1-28
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: pp 27-29
• Monograph Title: Bus service planning
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 626
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Busways; Carpools; Computer programs; Contraflow lanes; Mode choice; Peak hour traffic; Routes; Traffic lanes; Traffic surveys; Transportation corridors
• Old TRIS Terms: Modal selection; Reserved routes
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00167593
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309026512
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 16 1978 12:00AM