Corridor Management of Large Planned Special Events: Integrated Optimization of Park-and-Ride and Bus Contraflow Measures

1 To improve the corridor efficiency during large planned special events, an integrated strategy with 2 Park-and-ride (P&R) and bus contraflow is presented in this paper. This strategy eases the safety or 3 performance limitations of the two congestion mitigation measures applied alone. A qualitative analysis first 4 shows that P&R measure increases the transit demand on bus contraflow lane, while bus contraflow measure 5 provides an express and non-congested service to P&R users. Then, a P&R facility location method is 6 developed to search for the optimal P&R facility site. And a simulation corridor network is used to compare 7 the performance of the proposed integrated strategy with the normal operation and the conventional P&R 8 strategies, in four scenarios and with five groups of assumptions. The simulation results and measure of 9 effectiveness (MOE) analysis indicate the benefits and applicability of the proposed integrated strategy. 10