EVALUATING ARTERIAL STREET TRANSIT PREFERENTIAL TREATMENTS
Aurora Avenue is a major arterial street passing through Shoreline, Washington. In anticipation of substantial traffic growth over the next 20 years, the City of Shoreline initiated a project, Aurora Avenue North Multimodal Corridor Study, to identify a preferred design alternative for this critical roadway. Four alternatives consisting of various transit and roadway improvements were evaluated using the simulation model, VISSIM. The existing study area contained six signalized intersections, several driveways, on-street parking and bus routes with in-lane stops and bus pullouts. While traditional improvements (e.g., adding turn bays) aimed at increasing for general-purpose traffic were evaluated, another focus was on moving more people through transit preferential treatments. These treatments included: (1) transit signal priority; (2) queue by-pass lanes; and (3) exclusive transit lanes. The objective of this paper was to evaluate the transit preferential treatments applied in each of the four design alternatives.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM, ISBN 0-935403-48-5.
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Corporate Authors:
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Washington, DC United States -
Authors:
- Dale, J
- Bauer, T
- Bevan, T
- McKinley, K
- Slind, T
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Conference:
- ITE 2000 Annual Meeting and Exhibit
- Location: Nashville, Tennessee
- Date: 2000-8-6 to 2000-8-9
- Publication Date: 2000
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 14p
- Serial:
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Highway capacity; Measures of effectiveness; People movers; Queuing; Signalized intersections; Traffic; Traffic signals; Transit traffic
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00809206
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 23 2001 12:00AM