Optimizing Vehicle and Pedestrian Trade-Off Using Signal Timing in Intersections with Center Transit Lanes

New transit signal priority scheme for intersections with nearby bus rapid transit median stations

“…The passive control technique is used to implement bus priority without explicitly detecting actual bus presence but rather to pre‐assign extra green time to transit‐oriented roadways. Most methods usually assume bus arrival follows a high‐demand uniform distribution [7, 9] and researchers reported several effective passive strategies: cycle length shortening, splitting phases, and area‐wide signal timing [7, 10]. Using TRAF‐Netsim simulation, Garrow and Machemehl [11] tested the effectiveness of shortening cycle length and splitting phases at both isolated intersections and coordinated arterials.…”

“…Ma et al [13] presented a mathematical program for the intersection design problem to maximise reserve person capacity, which considers the layout of intersection, individual lane usages, exclusive bus lanes, and signal timings. In 2018, Zhao and Ma [10] formulated two‐objective programming at the complex intersection with island BRT stations to describe the benefits of buses, private vehicles, crossing pedestrians, and bus passengers. Besides, some coordinated bus progression methods for high‐demand bus corridors were developed by considering bus dwell time [14–16].…”

“…However, very few researches focused on TSP control at the intersections with nearby bus stations as a tradeoff between bus delay reduction and spillback avoidance exists. More specifically, most studies accounted for intersection‐area vehicle delay and passenger waiting delay [10, 17, 29], but ignored the potential occurrence of queue spillback at the nearby stations. Meanwhile, most work on the investigation of spillback avoidance has concentrated at the general intersection or arterial [36, 37], such as queue length constraints in the signal optimisation, reverse offsets, actuated signal adjustment, adaptive signal optimisation.…”

Bus Priority Signal Control Considering Delays of Passengers and Pedestrians of Adjacent Intersections

“…Ma et al analyzed the safety and delay of vehicles and pedestrians between the two pedestrian phase patterns, the exclusive pedestrian phase (EPP) and normal two-way crossing (TWC) [22]. For large intersections with center transit lanes, Zhao and Ma studied the passing and stopping situations of pedestrians at intersections (including one-stage crosswalk intersections and two-stage crosswalk intersections), and optimized signal timing scheme according to vehicle and pedestrian delays [23]. Considering pedestrian and vehicle delays at intersections under unsaturated tra c conditions, Yu et al put forward a method of signal timing for an isolated intersection with one-stage crossing and two-stage crossing [24].…”

Novel Design Method for Bus Approach Lanes with Bus Guidance and Priority Controls for Prioritizing Through and Left-Turn Buses

“…With the increasing congestion on urban roads and the scarcity of the available land for road construction, more and more cities are seriously considering changing the mode of travel. Public transport is a cost-effective transit mode which is highly recommended by authorities and researchers [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Improving the service levels of public transits would encourage more citizens to choose public transport for their travels instead of private vehicles, which will alleviate traffic congestion.…”