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Shared-Use Bus Priority Lanes On City Streets: Case Studies In Design And Management, Mti Report 11-10, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Todd Goldman, Nancy Hannaford
Shared-Use Bus Priority Lanes On City Streets: Case Studies In Design And Management, Mti Report 11-10, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Todd Goldman, Nancy Hannaford
Mineta Transportation Institute
This report examines the policies and strategies governing the design and, especially, operations of bus lanes in major congested urban centers. It focuses on bus lanes that operate in mixed traffic conditions; the study does not examine practices concerning bus priority lanes on urban highways or freeways. Four key questions addressed in the paper are: How do the many public agencies within any city region that share authority over different aspects of the bus lanes coordinate their work in designing, operating, and enforcing the lanes? What is the physical design of the lanes? What is the scope of the priority …