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ISSUES IN BUS RAPID TRANSIT
ISSUES IN. BUS RAPID TRANSIT . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. This document was sponsored by the United States Federal TRANSIT Administration (FTA) Office of research , Demonstration and Innovation. Bert Arrillaga, Chief of the Service Innovation Division in the Office of Mobility Innovation, provided guidance and overall direction for its content. Staff members from both the FTA and the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center). participated in its writing. The major contributors were Mr. Joseph Goodman of FTA's Service Innovation Division; and Ms. Melissa Laube and Ms. Judith Schwenk of the Volpe Center's Service Assessment Division in the Office of research and Analysis. Technical assistance was provided by Mr. Paul Schimek, also of the Volpe Center's Service Assessment Division. Bus RAPID TRANSIT i TABLE OF CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION: CREATING BETTER BUS 1. What is Bus RAPID TRANSIT ?.. 1. Reducing Delay: The Key to Bus RAPID TRANSIT .. 3. UNITED STATES 6. Busways and High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes.
Reducing Delay: The Key to Bus Rapid Transit Bus operations on a typical urban or suburban arterial are subject to several types of delay that reduce bus operating speed to generally only 60 percent of that of other vehicles. Figure 1 is from Transit Cooperative Research Program Report 26, Operational Analysis of Bus Lanes on Arterials. This
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