Research on the Policy of Private Cars Travelling at Peak Hours on BRT Roads in Guangzhou City

In order to improve the level of control and management of traffic flow, especially something about the bus rapid transit (BRT). Traffic surveys were conducted in the Guangzhou, China, and the time headway characteristics of BRT vehicles on the BRT roads were analyzed. We knew that the time headway of BRT vehicles is different from transportation modes. Moreover, with the situation of the space occupancy of BRT roads is lower, but the roads on both sides are congested, this research proposed a innovate traffic control and management strategy which allows some private cars run on the BRT roads at peaking hours, and it will help relieve traffic congestion on both sides of the BRT lanes. Researchers established the influence factor (IF) model based on mathematical statistics and modeling to figure out the policy which private cars can travel on the BRT roads at peaking hours. Then, the writers used VISSIM software to simulate and analyze the influence of private cars on BRT applying this traffic control strategy, and gave the threshold which determines the implementation of traffic control strategy. This paper proposed the transportation control strategy that could help the conducted policy and achieve higher efficiency.