A new approach to evaluating on-road public transport priority projects: balancing the demand for limited road-space |
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Authors: | Graham Currie Majid Sarvi Bill Young |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Civil Engineering, Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University, Building 60, Clayton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Abstract: | Despite widespread growth in on-road public transport priority schemes, road management authorities have few tools to evaluate
the impacts of these schemes on all road users. This paper describes a methodology developed in Melbourne, Australia to assist
the road management authority, VicRoads, evaluate trade-offs in the use of its limited road-space for new bus and tram priority
projects. The approach employs traffic micro-simulation modelling to assess road-space re-allocation impacts, travel behaviour
modelling to assess changes in travel patterns and a social cost benefit framework to evaluate impacts. The evaluation considers
a comprehensive range of impacts including the environmental benefits of improved public transport services. Impacts on public
transport reliability improvements are also considered. Although improved bus and tram reliability is a major rationale for
traffic priority its use in previous evaluations is rare. The paper critiques previous approaches, describes the proposed
method and explores some of the results found in its application. A major finding is that despite a more comprehensive approach
to measuring the benefits of bus and tram priority, road-space reallocation is difficult to economically justify in road networks
where public transport usage is low and car usage high. Strategies involving the balanced deployment of bus and tram priority
measures where the allocation of time and space to PT minimises negative traffic impacts is shown to improve the overall management
of road-space. A discussion of the approach is also provided including suggestions for further methodology development.
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Keywords: | Bus priority Economic evaluation Road space management Traffic simulation Traffic planning Tram priority |
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