TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the Impacts of Dedicated Bus Lanes on Urban Traffic Congestion and Modal Split with an Agent-Based Model
AU - Ben-Dor, Golan
AU - Ben-Elia, Eran
AU - Benenson, Itzhak
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for this research was provided by the Chief Scientist Office of the Israeli Ministry of Transport (Grant No. 0606915801) - Adoption of the shared autonomous vehicle: A Game-based model of urban travelers and transportation system co-adaptation. We would like to thank the Friedman family and the Center for Economic and Social Research at the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality for supporting this study with the Dr. Etel Friedman Memorial scholarship. We would like to thank the Tel-Aviv University Research Center for Cities and Urbanism for supporting this study via a scholarship in the subject of - Basic and applicative studies in topics related to cities and urbanism.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Dedicated Bus Lanes (DBLs) have the potential to significantly improve the performance of bus services while encouraging mode switch from private cars to Public Transport (PT), reduce travel times and relieve urban congestion. We present MATSim simulations that assess the impact of DBLs on urban road traffic, focusing on the transportation network of the city of Sioux Falls and comparing the effects of adding a DBL vs. converting one of the lanes into a DBL, for each link that is exploited by PT. The DBLs result in essential changes to the modal split and preserves travel time of the PT users at off-peak levels. MATSim's inherent ability to represent individual travelers' adaptation to the changing travel opportunities demonstrates high effectiveness of the DBLs in cities where the level of congestion is high or very high and quantitatively estimates their qualitative effects. The model will be further applied for establishing the network of the DBLs in the highly congested Tel-Aviv metropolitan area, where, historically, most of the PT lines share the same road space with the rest of the traffic.
AB - Dedicated Bus Lanes (DBLs) have the potential to significantly improve the performance of bus services while encouraging mode switch from private cars to Public Transport (PT), reduce travel times and relieve urban congestion. We present MATSim simulations that assess the impact of DBLs on urban road traffic, focusing on the transportation network of the city of Sioux Falls and comparing the effects of adding a DBL vs. converting one of the lanes into a DBL, for each link that is exploited by PT. The DBLs result in essential changes to the modal split and preserves travel time of the PT users at off-peak levels. MATSim's inherent ability to represent individual travelers' adaptation to the changing travel opportunities demonstrates high effectiveness of the DBLs in cities where the level of congestion is high or very high and quantitatively estimates their qualitative effects. The model will be further applied for establishing the network of the DBLs in the highly congested Tel-Aviv metropolitan area, where, historically, most of the PT lines share the same road space with the rest of the traffic.
KW - Agent-Based simulation
KW - Congestion
KW - Dedicated Bus Lanes
KW - MATSim
KW - Mode choice
KW - Peak hours
KW - Public Transport
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2018.04.071
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2018.04.071
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85051259477
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 130
SP - 824
EP - 829
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
T2 - 9th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, ANT 2018
Y2 - 8 May 2018 through 11 May 2018
ER -