Urban Transit Priority Corridors - a Rapid Red Lane to Benefits

This paper examines the benefits and costs of a proposed 2.2-mile transit priority corridor in San Francisco. The corridor incorporates many features of BRT including transit only lanes, transit priority signals, reduced stop frequency, and other bus stop and pedestrian improvements. SFMTA paints the transit-only lanes with red paint to clearly delineate the lanes. However, it is not a full BRT in that the priority lanes will not extend for the entire length of the corridor and the trolley buses that operate on the corridor have routes that extend beyond the corridor. The SFMTA does not currently classify or report transit priority corridors as BRT. The authors originally developed the BCA as part of a TIGER grant application. This paper is timely in that few examples of complete benefit cost studies for urban BRT corridors are currently available. It is original because while it incorporates many of the methods suggested by NCHRP Project 20-65, Task 22, it contributes to the state-of-the-art practice by including estimates of the benefits of travel time reliability and livability. As such, it should be both useful to researchers and ready for implementation by practitioners.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP050 Standing Committee on Bus Transit Systems.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Lawrence, Michael F
  • Skolnik, Jonathan
  • Fritzler, Anne
  • Howard, Dan
  • Wahner, Mathies
  • Silvergleit, Ira
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
• Date: 2016

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 95th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Bus priority; Bus rapid transit; Traffic signal priority; Transportation corridors; Urban transit
• Identifier Terms: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco (California)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01591795
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 16-6237
• Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 29 2016 9:20AM