Titel:
Implementering af Bus Rapid Transit i København baseret på internationale erfaringer

Abstract:
This paper discusses the effects of implementing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in Copenhagen including how to evaluate and model bus operations. For this purpose, this paper develops a mesoscopic simulation model where bus operations are modelled on a microscopic level whereas the interactions with other traffic are modelled macroscopically. This makes it possible to model high-frequency bus services such as BRT lines in more details without the time consumption of micro-simulation models.
The model is applied to a BRT project proposal with different combinations of BRT components. The model results show that infrastructure upgrades (busways and enhanced stations) ensure a reduction to travel time whereas no improvements to reliability occur. Upgrades to technology and service planning (pre-paid fare collection, boarding and alighting from all doors, special BRT vehicles, ITS, and active bus control) ensure an increase in service reliability whereas only small reductions to travel time are observed. However, by combining all BRT elements it is possible to obtain synergy effects where the improved reliability due to planning and technology components makes it possible to utilise the infrastructure optimally. Hence, it is possible to increase commercial speed from 14.8 to 19.9 km/h and service reliability in terms of headway time regularity from 47% to 84% aggregated on both directions for the morning peak period making the implementation of BRT feasible from a pure financial point of view.

Forfatter:
Jesper Ingvardson, DTU Transport, specialestuderende Jonas Kornerup Jensen, DTU Transport, specialestuderende

Danske Keywords:
Kollektiv trafik, BRT, busdrift, pålidelighed, regularitet, mesoskopisk simulering

Engelske Keywords:
Public transport, BRT, bus operations, reliability, regularity, mesoscopic simulation model

År:
2012

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