Evaluation of a Public Transport Priority Methodology

DOI

10.2991/ifmeita-16.2016.18How to use a DOI?

Keywords

signal control; public transport priority; traffic-responsive urban control.

Abstract

Compared with the past decades, the methodologies of bus priority at traffic signals is being researched more and more extensively because of the strong development of public transport. Several methods have been used to attract people to use public transport. These methods may be divided into two categories: facility-design-based measures and signal-control-based measures. In this paper, a signal-control-based methodology is presented and implemented in a microscopic simulation environment emulating the network of Nanjing, China, with realistic traffic conditions. The objective of the control is to reduce the average delay of buses without creating major disturbances to the rest of the network. In addition to a fixed-time strategy combined with public transport priority (PTP), the traffic-responsive urban control (TUC) strategy with PTP is implemented in order to reduce the buses delays.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Li Lin
AU  - Yongkang Zhang
AU  - Zhuang Hu
PY  - 2016/01
DA  - 2016/01
TI  - Evaluation of a Public Transport Priority Methodology
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Forum on Management, Education and Information Technology Application
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 93
EP  - 97
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ifmeita-16.2016.18
DO  - 10.2991/ifmeita-16.2016.18
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