Guidance for Design and Implementation of Queue Jump Lane with Presignal for a Heterogeneous Traffic Environment
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
Volume 146, Issue 10
Abstract
In mixed traffic streams, especially near intersections, bus priority treatments are necessary to prevent buses from significant travel time losses. This paper aims to assist practitioners and field engineers to identify the design parameters and potential impacts of implementation of a queue jump lane (QJL) with presignal based on several locational characteristics. The impacts of nine different factors on the operations of QJL are evaluated using a validated traffic microsimulation model. The levels of each factor are specified based on the urban transport operations in India. In order to assist practitioners, simplistic travel time savings and maximum queue length prediction models are developed using multiparameter regression analyses based on the factors that reveal significant impacts. Finally, guidance is provided to practitioners in the form of an eight-step procedure to implement QJL in emerging countries with analogous operating conditions.
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Data Availability Statement
The following data sets that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request: simulation model validation data set and simulation data set of bus priority scenarios for development of prediction models.
Acknowledgments
The authors express their sincere thanks to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and PTV Group, Karlsruhe, Germany, for providing their kind support in the present work. The research Grant No. SB/S3/CEE/0015/2013 received from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, for performing this study as a part of a research project is duly acknowledged.
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Received: Oct 22, 2019
Accepted: Jun 3, 2020
Published online: Jul 22, 2020
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Discussion open until: Dec 22, 2020
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