Evaluation of Bus-Exclusive Lanes

This paper presents a multimode dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model for the impact analysis of the bus exclusive lane. First, a multimode point-queue model is proposed to reflect the interactions of cars and buses under two scenarios: networks with and without bus exclusive lanes. To capture the travel behaviors of mode choices, departure time choices, and path choices, an integrated variational inequality (VI) formulation is proposed. Then, a heuristic algorithm is developed to solve the VI problem. Finally, based on the proposed measures of effectiveness (MOEs) of travel cost, bus passengers, and queue length, the comparison analyses in virtual networks with and without bus exclusive lanes are presented by numerical examples.