BUS PRIORITY AT TRAFFIC SIGNALS - EVALUATING STRATEGY OPTIONS

This article compares different strategy options for providing bus priority at traffic signals. The different strategies considered vary in the strength of the priority awarded and in the selection of the buses that are to receive priority. The strategies include so-called differential priority, where buses receive individual priority treatment according to some criterion such as lateness, and nondifferential priority, where all buses are treated in the same way. The strategies are compared using a simulation model, SPLIT, that has been developed and validated. The article describes some of the modelling issues that are involved in simulating bus priority systems and how they have been treated with the SPLIT model.

• Record URL:
  http://doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.6.3.1
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/30755822
• Corporate Authors:

  University of South Florida, Tampa

  Center for Urban Transportation Research, 4202 East Fowler Avenue
  Tampa, FL  United States  33620-5375
• Authors:
  • McLeod, F
  • Hounsell, Nick B
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1-14
• Serial:
  • Journal of Public Transportation
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: University of South Florida, Tampa
  • ISSN: 1077-291X
  • EISSN: 2375-0901
  • Serial URL: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jpt/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus priority; Bus transit; Bus transit operations; Differential equations; Traffic signals
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00963070
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 26 2003 12:00AM