PTPrealtime - Public Transport Priority in Real Time
Overview
Background & policy context:
In the years to come, public transport will be called to play a significant role in achieving a sustainable transport system. To this end, the quality, accessibility and reliability of its operations should be improved. In this context, the favourable treatment of public transport means within the road network may have, among others, a significant contribution. Such treatment can be derived as a result of an appropriate design of the road network facilities and/or the employed signal control at the network junctions. PTPrealtime focuses on this latter approach aiming at developing methodologies for the favourable treatment, in real time, of public transport vehicles approaching signal controlled junctions.
Objectives:
Review the state-of-the-art and -practice of public transport priority strategies to identify the current trends and future perspectives in the field.
Develop a methodology and the corresponding software to provide public transport priority in real time, for public transport vehicles approaching junctions with relatively low frequencies.
Investigate the case of multiple public transport priority requests, i.e. when several public transport lines from different directions intersect at the same junction, and develop corresponding priority methodologies.
Investigate the effectiveness of the developed methodologies in public transport, and their implications to the rest of the traffic through microscopic simulations of an existing network using real traffic data.
Methodology:
PTPrealtime comprises six work packages:
- Review of literature and practical applications
- Development of a methodology and corresponding software for public transport priority provision in case of low frequency public transport operations
- Simulation evaluation of the methodology for the low frequency public transport operations
- Development of a methodology and corresponding software for public transport priority provision in the case of multiple priority requests
- Simulation evaluation of the methodology for multiple priority requests
- Dissemination and exploitation of the project results
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