REVIEW OF BUS LANES. SUMMARY - REVIEWING THE OPERATION OF ALL EXISTING BUS LANES

The report examines the effectiveness of bus lanes on 44 locations out of a total of 93 schemes now in operation in London. Brief details are given of costs and benefits, safety, and the effect on other traffic. It is concluded that the bus priority schemes are serving a useful purpose in assisting bus operations. Any problems that have arisen usually indicate that design modifications are required rather than lack of need for the bus priority scheme. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  London University, England

  Senate House
  London WC1,   England 
• Publication Date: 1976-1-27

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: 7 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus lanes; Bus priority; Buses; Costs; Economic efficiency; Evaluation and assessment; Highway safety; Level of service; Safety; Traffic; Traffic lanes; Traffic signal preemption
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 224: Cost; 5911: Efficiency; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 653: Level of service; 648: Priority (traffic); 1665: Safety; 2827: Traffic lane; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147946
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: TP-1797
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1977 12:00AM