Guidance for identifying corridor conditions that warrant deploying transit signal priority and queue jump: Fid-Bau Portal

Guidance for identifying corridor conditions that warrant deploying transit signal priority and queue jump

Ali, Md Sultan / Kaisar, Evangelos I. / Hadi, Mohammad

Nowadays, our streets and highways are growing in traffic congestion as large number of cars are entering the transportation system due to rise in population. The high volume of vehicles and numerous signalized intersection the traffic congestion is causing huge problems to schedule reliability. As transportation demand is increasing various road networks are facing increasing congestion. To mitigate the high-density congestion transit signal priority (TSP) and queue jumper are significant solution. Transit signal priority is providing solutions according to many variables, and it is pursuing several valuable objectives such as: reduced transit travel times, better schedule adherence, better transit efficiency, and increased road network efficiency by car mobility. Our objective is to compare and evaluate existing guidelines or form new guidelines for TSP and Queue jump. In addition, in this research, we study various findings from a series of gap filling research efforts of various guidelines strategies which are not in common use in the United States; a simulation platform will be used to study transit signal priority and their guidelines. The preliminary results show improvement in travel times in each directional of travel and various scenario that implemented some of the transit preferential treatments, when compared to base scenario.