“…To increase the capability of TSP, a number of model‐based control strategies have also been reported in the literature, which optimise certain performance measures, such as total delay of all detected buses [23, 24], total vehicle delay of both buses and passenger cars [25, 26], total person capacity maximisation [13], or total person delay of both buses and passenger cars [27, 28]. Following the similar control logic of Hounsell and Shrestha [22], Lin et al [17] and Ye and Xu [29] selected various passengers’ delay as control objective to deal with multiple priority requests, including on‐board bus passenger delay, passenger waiting delay at the next bus station, and passenger car delay.…”