Simulation of Bus Operations in Urban Roads using Paramics

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This paper investigates the advantages of exclusive bus lanes by the comparison of car travel time between ordinary lane case and exclusive bus lane case. Moreover, the effects of bus lane types and bus bay priority on the travel time of each kind of vehicles are analyzed based on the simulation of bus bay priority and three cases of bus lane in a traffic system. The simulated bus lane cases include roadside exclusive bus lane case, bus priority lane case and ordinary lane case. Especially, aggregations of the bus bay priority in the case of ordinary lane can create many effects on the travel time of buses and other vehicles as well. This bus bay priority is considered as the priority of bus in merging into the main stream. Besides, a share of the number of buses that have this kind of priority in each simulation period can be quantified to vary from 0% to 100%. Finally, conclusions and suggestions concerning with bus lane types and bus bay priority are proposed.