Tandem Design of Bus Priority Based on a Pre-Signal System

Yutong Sun, Jin Li, Xiaozhong Wei and Yuling Jiao
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Yutong Sun: College of Transportation, Nanling Campus, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Jin Li: College of Transportation, Nanling Campus, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China
Xiaozhong Wei: Ganzhou Transportation Bureau, Jiangxi 341000, China
Yuling Jiao: College of Transportation, Nanling Campus, Jilin University, Changchun 130022, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: Giving buses priority is an important measure to improve the attractiveness of public transport and to reduce urban traffic congestion. Reducing bus service delays as much as possible will have a positive impact on urban traffic. Based on the pre-signal system, a bus at an intersection with a left-turn special phase is optimized by “tandem design”. The design model is applied to the entrance of an intersection to study the process of vehicle arrival and departure at the main signal and pre-signal, and to calculate and analyze the delay changes of buses, straight social vehicles (meaning vehicles other than those required to be open to traffic) and left-turn vehicles before and after the adoption of “tandem design”. The results show that when the vehicle capacity at the intersection is saturated, the delays to buses and the delays of left-turn vehicles will be significantly reduced once the “tandem design” is adopted at the entrance of a cross intersection with a special left-turn phase. However, it has little effect on the delay of straight-on vehicles; with this system, the total delay experienced by straight vehicles will be reduced to one cycle.

Keywords: tandem design; pre-signal; public transport priority; vehicle delay (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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