Evaluation of Transit Signal Priority for Bus Rapid Transit in Heterogeneous Traffic Flow

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“…In order to achieve sustainable transportation and economic development, the dependence on private cars should be reduced while encouraging "greener" transport modes, such as public transit, walking, and cycling [48,49]. Determining the explanatory factors affecting pedestrians' mobility and how these factors affect walking likelihood have always been of interest to authorities.…”

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The Effect of Distance Intervals on Walking Likelihood in Different Trip Purposes

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Increasing private car ownership and car dependency has led to a low share of walking as an active mode as well as congestion, air pollution, and health problems in developing countries. This paper aims to identify and compare the impacts of a selection of socio-economic, travel-related, and built environment variables on walking likelihood and respondents’ sensitivity to the walking distance, both for discretionary and mandatory trips. The analysis drew its origin from 14,463 responses acquired through an extensive travel survey conducted in the city of Qazvin, Iran. The estimated binary logit coefficients show people’s heterogeneity in the walking behavior for discretionary and mandatory trips. The results report a higher likelihood of walking on mandatory trips at almost all distances than the discretionary ones. Furthermore, investigating individual heterogeneity in different trip distances reveals that people aged less than 14 are more likely to choose walking on mandatory trips longer than 2400 m. Besides, those aged 25–44 years old or above 65 have less tendency to choose walking on mandatory trips with distances of 2000–2400 m and 800–1200 m, respectively. These findings are almost different on discretionary trips; compared to other age groups, people aged 15–24 years are less likely to choose walking on discretionary trips with a distance of 800–1200 m. Moreover, in trip distances of 1200–1600 m, the elderlies have a greater tendency to choose walking compared to other age groups. Some implications for more sustainable mobility in human-oriented urban environments are also presented and critically discussed.

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Microscopic traffic simulation model for bus transport operations under heterogeneous traffic conditions

Jayasinghe,

Sivakumar,

Kumarage

2024

International Conference on Electronics, Engineering Physics, and Earth Science

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Modal shift behavior of car users to light rail transit, some evidence from the field

Abbasi¹,

Mamdoohi²,

Arndt³

2023

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Growing population and car dependency in developing countries have led to congestion that adversely affects the environment, travel time, trip cost, accidents, and public transportation reliability. Through implementation of travel demand management (TDM) policies, governments and policymakers aim to reduce private vehicle dependency and encourage people to use public transportation. Light rail transit is an important part of an attractive public transport. Rail transportation systems, though offer many potential benefits, are a major financial challenge for governments because of the high capital and operation costs. Therefore, passenger behavior must be determined before a new system is introduced. Using a stated preference (SP) questionnaire, private car users' behavior in Tehran's universities has been investigated to determine the explanatory factors affecting the modal shift to urban light rail transit (LRT). A binary logit model estimation results showed that men are less likely than women to shift toward LRT because they rely more on their private cars. It was the provision of free on-street parking at destinations and the frequency of using private cars on a weekly basis that had the most negative effect on LRT modal shift, demonstrating the critical role that implementation of TDM policies could play. Moreover, reduction in travel time by LRT has the most positive impact on modal shift toward LRT among private car users. As an interesting finding, marginal effect values indicate that a 10% reduction in travel time (0.32) has a greater impact than the possibility of sitting 50% of the travel time (0.25) on the likelihood of modal shift to LRT. Furthermore, the probability of modal shift to LRT will be reduced by 0.12 units for each unit increase in car ownership. In addition, owning a driver's license was also negatively correlated with LRT modal shift and decreased the likelihood by 0.27. This research will facilitate the decision-making and planning for future transportation systems to increase LRT's utility for potential users.

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Evaluation of Transit Signal Priority for Bus Rapid Transit in Heterogeneous Traffic Flow

Cited by 3 publications

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The Effect of Distance Intervals on Walking Likelihood in Different Trip Purposes

The Effect of Distance Intervals on Walking Likelihood in Different Trip Purposes

Microscopic traffic simulation model for bus transport operations under heterogeneous traffic conditions

Modal shift behavior of car users to light rail transit, some evidence from the field

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