Optimisation of signalised intersections by minimising vehicle stop-time

Funding or Partner Organisation: Transport for New South Wales (Transport for NSW CRC)
Transport for New South Wales (Transport for NSW CRC)
iMOVE Australia Limited (iMOVE CRC)
iMOVE Australia Limited (iMOVE CRC)

Start year: 2018

Summary: Prioritizing high capacity public transport services such as bus and Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) offers the possibility of increasing the hourly customer throughput of on-street transport in big cities like Sydney, potentially reducing delays at high congestion points in Central Business Districts (CBDs). A key means of doing this is through implementation of Transit Signal Priority (TSP) systems. This project introduces innovations to standard TSP approaches by developing an algorithm set that minimises the green extension and red reduction of the LRV or bus priority phase by calculating an optimum approach speed for the public transport vehicle. By speeding up or reducing the LRV approach speed, the priority signal phase is less while still giving priority to public transport with the advantage of reducing the potential stop time for private vehicles.

FOR Codes: Road Public Transport, Transport Engineering

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